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“MTN” Syria Telecom Services announced the resignation of its president, who is close to businessmen Rami Makhlouf, who he believes is part of the campaign launched by the regime to eliminate the influence of his cousin, after the differences that recently affected to the Assad and Makhlouf families.
Although Rami Makhlouf, cousin of regime president Bashar al-Assad, owns MTN’s competitor Syriatel in the cell phone market in Syria, but also has a large stake in the second company, which has been a source of discontent and ridiculous to Syrians, from the start of the companies’ business. Considering that this was a main reason to eliminate the competition factor between them.
According to a company management book “MTN” addressed to the management of the Damascus Stock Exchange, on May 10, the company president, “Mohamed Bashir Al-Munajjid”, resigned from this position.
The book says that Al-Munajjid submitted his resignation to the company presidency on May 4, a day before the resignation of two members of the Board of Directors, Naseer Subbah and George Vakiani, explaining this collective resignation “in special circumstances” .
However, well-informed sources in Damascus confirmed to Al-Modon that the three figures who had recently resigned from the MTN administration are personalities close to Rami Makhlouf, especially Chairman of the Board Bashir Al-Munajjid, and the authorities are likely Security officials have forced all three company officials to provide their resignations, despite the fact that less than two months have passed since the Munajid was appointed chairman of the board.
According to these sources, Al-Munajjid, a former minister in the government government, was chosen as an acceptable compromise for the two families who recently disputed the money, since he was close to Rami Makhlouf and at the same time trusted Asma Al-Akhras. , Bashar Al-Assad’s wife, but this trust was exposed. Shaking vigorously after Makhlouf confronted the regime last week, prompting the Assad family to make a decisive decision to get rid of the top officials associated with him, regardless of their role in the current crisis and the extent of their cooperation. with the Assad family.
Muhammad Bashir Al-Munajjid has headed the SoftCAD Company for Communications and Information Technology Solutions since 2006 and served as President of MTN Syria between March and May 2020.
Al-Munajjid had served as minister in the regime government twice, the last of which was minister of communications between 2004 and 2006, and before that he was minister of transport between 2001 and 2004, while serving as dean from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the University of Damascus between 2000 and 2001.
And Tele Invest Limited, one of the main owners of MTN, was quick to announce its willingness to pay the corresponding fees, according to its legal stake in the company earlier this month, along with the escalation launched by Rami Makhlouf in the first video clip he published on the site “Facebook”, in which he refused to pay the amounts of taxes imposed on the company “Syriatel”, which marked the beginning of a stormy storm within the system.
On April 27, the Telecommunications and Post Regulatory Authority accused the two telecom companies of not paying taxes to the government, which amounted to £ 233.8 billion ($ 180 million), while Makhlouf accused unidentified parts of his regime blackmailing him and demanding that Bashar al-Assad intervene, threatening that if he did not do so This problem is solved, the country is heading for danger.
Rami Makhlouf, who has been at the forefront of the economic system for the past two decades, revealed that security forces in the regime launched an arrest campaign against senior managers and employees of their companies, and this campaign not only appears to arrest, It also included pressure for the resignation, which is confirmed by MTN’s book The latter, including the resignation of three of its most prominent officials.
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