Name

Identifying information

Reasons

Date of listing

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Yasser Aziz ABBAS

(a.k.a. Yasser, Yaser, Yasr; Aziz, Aziz; Abbas, Abas; ياسر عزيز عباس)

Gender: male

Date of birth: 22.8.1978

Nationality: Syrian

Relatives/business associates/entities or partners/links: Bajaa Trading Services LLC, Qudrah Trading, Tafawoq Tourism Projects Company, Top Business, Yang King, Al-Aziz Group

Leading businessperson operating in Syria. Supports and/or benefits from the regime through business dealings, including fuel smuggling and weapons transfers. Yasser Aziz Abbas profits from facilitating oil imports on behalf of the Syrian regime and uses his relations with the regime to obtain preferential dealings and treatment.

17.2.2020

289.

Mahir BurhanEddine AL-IMAM

(a.k.a. ماهر برهان الدين الإمام)

Gender: male

Nationality: Syrian

Position: General Manager of Telsa Group/Telsa Telecom

Relatives/business associates/entities or partners/links: Telsa Group/Telsa Telecom; Tazamon Contracting LLC; Castro LLC

Leading businessperson operating in Syria with business interests in tourism, telecommunications and real estate. As General Manager of the regime-backed Telsa Communication Group as well as of Castro LLC, and through his other business interests, Mahir BurhanEddine Al-Imam benefits from the regime and supports its financing and lobbying policy as well as its construction policy.

17.2.2020

290.

Waseem AL-KATTAN

(a.k.a. Waseem, Wasseem, Wassim, Wasim; Anouar; Al-Kattan, Al-Katan, Al-Qattan, Al-Qatan; وسيم قطان, وسيم أنوار القطان)

Gender: male

Date of birth: 4.3.1976

Nationality: Syrian

Position: President of Damascus Countryside (Rural) Province Chamber of Commerce

Relatives/business associates/entities or partners/links:

Larosa Furniture/Furnishing; Jasmine Fields Company Ltd.; Muruj Cham (Murooj al-Cham) Investment and Tourism Group; Adam and Investment LLC; Universal Market Company LLC; Treasurer of the Federation of Syrian Chambers of Commerce

Leading businessperson operating in Syria benefitting from and supporting the regime. Owner of multiple businesses and holding companies with interests and activities in various economic sectors such as real estate, luxury hotel industry and commercial centres. Waseem Al-Kattan rose rapidly as a leading businessman by imposing taxes on goods smuggled into Eastern Ghouta under siege, and is now involved in aggressive forms of clientelism to the benefit of the regime. Waseem Al-Kattan benefits financially from favoured access to public tenders as well as to licences and contracts awarded by government agencies as a result of his close ties to the regime.

17.2.2020

291.

Amer FOZ

(a.k.a. عامر فوز)

Gender: male

Date of birth: 11.3.1976

Nationality: Syrian

Passport Number: 06010274747

Position: General Manager of ASM International General Trading LLC (ASM International Trading)

Relatives/business associates/entities or partners/links: EU-designated Samer Foz; EU-designated Aman Holding (Aman Damascus Joint Stock Company); ASM International General Trading LLC (ASM International Trading)

Leading businessperson with personal and family business interests and activities in multiple sectors of the Syrian economy, including through Aman Holding (formerly known as the Aman Group). Through Aman Holding, he benefits financially from access to commercial opportunities and supports the Assad regime, including through involvement in the regime-backed development of Marota City. Since 2012, he has also been General Manager of ASM International Trading LLC.

He is also associated with his brother Samer Foz, who has been designated by the EU since January 2019 as a leading businessperson operating in Syria and for supporting or benefiting from the regime.

17.2.2020

292.

Saqr RUSTOM

(a.k.a. Saqr, Saqer; As'ad, Asaad, Asad; Al-Rustom, Al-Rostom; صقر رستم, صقر أسعد الرستم)

Gender: male

Nationality: Syrian

Position: Head of National Defence Force in Homs

Relatives/business associates/entities or partners/links: Damas Real Estate Development and Investment LLC

Head of the local branch of the National Defence Force in Homs (a regime militia - Shabiha). Responsible for its participation in the brutal repression of the civilian population in Syria. Through his militia, Saqr Rustom is responsible for multiple war profiteering schemes and is therefore benefiting from and supporting the Syrian regime. Associated with designated person Bassam Hassan, his uncle, with whom he established the Damas Real Estate Development and Investment LLC in order to invest in real estate projects.

17.2.2020

293.

Abdelkader SABRA

(a.k.a. Abdelkader, Abd el Kader, Abd al Kader, Abdul Kader Abd al Qadr, Abdul Qadr; Sabra, Sabrah; عبد القادر صبرا; عبد القادر صبره)

Gender: male

Date of birth: 14.9.1955

Nationality: Syrian; Lebanese

Position: Owner of Sabra Maritime Agency; head of the Syrian-Turkish Businessmen Council; founding partner of Phoenicia Tourism Company; President of the Chamber of Maritime Navigation in Syria

Relatives/business associates/entities or partners/links:

Phoenicia Tourism Company (شركة فينيقيا للسياحة); Sabra Maritime Agency (كالة صبره البحرية)

Leading businessperson operating in Syria with multiple economic interests, especially in the maritime and tourism sectors. As a major shipping magnate and a close business associate of Rami Makhlouf (regime supporter and cousin of Bashar al-Assad), Abdelkader Sabra provides financial and economic support for the Syrian regime, including through offshore companies. Abdelkader Sabra also benefits from his ties to the regime, which have allowed him to expand his activities in the real estate sector. He is also involved in money laundering and commercial activities in support of the Syrian regime and its associates.

17.2.2020

294.

Khodr Ali TAHER

(a.k.a. خضر علي طاه)

Gender: male

Date of birth: 1976

Nationality: Syrian

Position: Director and owner of Ella Media Services; founding partner of Castle Security and Protection and of Jasmine Contracting Company; Chairman and founding partner of the Syrian Hotel Management Company; Manager and owner of Ematel

Leading businessperson operating across multiple sectors of the Syrian economy, including private security, mobile phone retail, hotel management, advertising services and domestic money transfer.

Supports and benefits from the regime through cooperation in his business activities and his involvement in smuggling and profiteering activities. Khodr Ali Taher owns a number of companies and has co-founded others. His involvement in business dealings with the regime includes entering into a joint venture with the Syrian Transport and Tourism Company, of which the Ministry of Tourism owns a two-thirds stake.

17.2.2020

Relatives/business associates/entities or partners/links:

Citadel for Protection; Guard and Security Services (Castle Security and protection); Ematel LLC (Ematel Communications); Syrian Hotel Management Company; Jasmine Contracting Company

295.

Adel Anwar AL-OLABI

(a.k.a. Adel Anouar el-Oulabi, Adil Anwar al-Olabi; عادل أنور العلبي)

Gender: male

Date of birth: 1976

Nationality: Syrian

Position: Vice Chairman of Damascus Cham Holding Company (DCHC); Governor of Damascus

Leading businessperson benefiting from and supporting the regime. Vice Chairman of Damascus Cham Holding Company (DCHC), the investment arm of the Governorate of Damascus managing the properties of the Governorate of Damascus and implementing the Marota City project.

Adel Anwar Al-Olabi is also the Governor of Damascus, appointed by Bashar Al-Assad in November 2018. As Governor of Damascus and Vice Chair of DCHC, he is responsible for efforts to implement regime policies of developing expropriated land in Damascus (including Decree No. 66 and Law No. 10), most notably through the Marota City project.

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Name

Identifying information

Reasons

Date of listing

‘77.

Al Qatarji Company

(a.k.a. Qatarji International Group; Al-Sham and Al-Darwish Company; Khatirji/Katarji/Katerji Group; مجموعة/شركة قاطرخي)

Type of entity: private company

Business sector: import/export; trucking; supply of oil and commodities

Name of Director/Management: Hussam AL-QATIRJI, CEO (EU-designated)

Ultimate beneficial owner: Hussam AL-QATIRJI (EU-designated)

Prominent company operating across multiple sectors of the Syrian economy. By facilitating fuel, arms and ammunition trade between the regime and various actors including ISIS (Daesh) under the pretext of importing and exporting food items, supporting militias fighting alongside the regime and taking advantage of its ties with the regime to expand its commercial activity, Al Qatarji Company – whose board is headed by designated person Hossam Qatarji, a member of the Syrian People’s Assembly – supports and benefits from the Syrian regime.

17.2.2020

Registered address: Mazzah, Damascus, Syria

Relatives/business associates/entities or partners/links:

Arvada/Arfada Petroleum Company JSC

78.

Damascus Cham Holding Company

(a.k.a. Damascus Cham Private Joint Stock Company; القابضة الشام دمشق)

Type of entity: Public-owned company under private law

Business sector: Real estate development

Name of Director/Management:

Adel Anwar AL-OLABI, vice chairman of the Board of Directors and governor of Damascus (EU-designated)

Ultimate beneficial owner: Governorate of Damascus

Damascus Cham Holding Company was established by the regime as the investment arm of the Governorate of Damascus in order to manage the properties of the Governorate of Damascus and implement the Marota City project, a luxurious real estate project based on expropriated land under Decree No. 66 and Law No. 10 in particular.

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Relatives/business associates/entities or partners/links:

Rami Makhlouf (EU-designated); Samer Foz (EU-designated); Mazen Tarazi (EU-designated);

Talas Group, owned by businessman Anas Talas (EU-designated); Exceed Development and Investment Company, owned by private investors Hayan Mohammad Nazem Qaddour, and Maen Rizk Allah Haykal (both EU-designated); Khaled Al-Zubaidi and Nader Qalei (both EU-designated)

By managing the implementation of Marota City, Damascus Cham Holding (whose Vice-Chair is the Governor of Damascus) supports and benefits from the Syrian regime and provides benefits to businesspeople with close ties to the regime who have struck lucrative deals with this entity through public-private partnerships.