Assad – Makhlouf … settling scores and disagreements on influence What brought to light the greatest conflict within the ruling family?

The disagreement within the family of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which was revealed by the latest video of his cousin, Syrian businessman Rami Makhlouf, is not new, but his going out in the open in this way and at the moment has been focused on the worsening financial problems of the Syrian regime and the exacerbation of the struggle for influence, after nine years. From a war that exhausted the country and its institutions, and at a time when the regime was under suffocating financial constraint. Until recently, there was talk of a dispute between Assad and Makhlouf in the framework of rumors and impossibilities, especially since Makhlouf was for more than two decades, the most powerful wings of the narrow ruling elite in the country and the “Alma deposit” J “for the family, especially after he became the primary beneficiary of the Bashar al-Assad-era economic” liberal “, and built an empire of goods, and was trying to achieve his own interests through monopoly on the “privatization” of public institutions, and investment in the new “private banks.” He also owned a large part of the private company “Syriatel” for communications. With a fortune of billions of dollars, Makhlouf became in the main financier of the pro-Assad militias, who played a decisive role in the repression of the Syrian revolution, generously supporting activities …

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