PARIS – France’s highest court docket on Wednesday sealed a ruling that discovered Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was responsible of buying hundreds of thousands of euros’ value of French property utilizing funds diverted from the Syrian state.
The decision by the Cour de Cassation, which comes on the finish of an extended course of by which al-Assad has raised varied appeals, confirmed a four-year jail sentence handed on Rifaat al-Assad, who had returned to Syria final yr after shedding entry to his French wealth.
“The belongings held by Rifaat al-Assad in France seized through the proceedings will probably be definitively confiscated”, stated Sherpa, a France-based group of human rights attorneys whose legal criticism in 2013 triggered the proceedings.
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