US imposes sanctions on Syrian regime leader's wife and dozens others, while French court jails his uncle, Rifaat al Assad, for graft
A picture taken on September 10, 2019 shows a US $100 note placed on a stack of Syrian pounds at a market in northeastern Syria city of Qamishli.
He called the sanctions "the beginning of what will be a sustained campaign of economic and political pressure to deny the Assad regime revenue and support it uses to wage war and commit mass atrocities against the Syrian people." A Paris court on Wednesday convicted Assad's uncle of money laundering and misappropriating Syrian public funds and sentenced him to four years in prison.
The younger brother of the late Syrian president Hafez al Assad – father of the incumbent president – was tried in Paris for crimes allegedly committed between 1984 and 2016, including aggravated tax fraud and misappropriation of Syrian funds. Syria's central bank devalued the Syrian pound on Wednesday giving in to weeks of depreciation on the black market as new US sanctions took effect.
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