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The young Syrian Basil George Haswani, son of the Syrian businessman George Haswani, was the target of an assassination attempt in the Qalamoun area in the countryside of Damascus, his hometown, according to the “Aleppo Today” channel.
Syrian businessman Basil George Haswani was exposed to an assassination attempt in the Damascus countryside, days after his father’s name was mentioned in an investigation into those involved in the Beirut port bombing on August 4, 2020.
Media director and director Imad Jandali Al-Rifai revealed the incident through a post he wrote directly on Basil Haswani’s page on Tuesday, explaining that the latter had been the target of an assassination attempt by shooting on the Rima road. in the Yabroud area in the Damascus countryside, but the damage was only material.
Basil Haswani owns the Damascus-based company “Massa Oil Production”, according to Syrian opposition media. While the news of the assassination attempt spread among Syrians on social media. Be aware that he constantly posts pictures of him carrying weapons with other soldiers in different parts of the country.
This comes after the name of his father, George Haswani, a businessman close to the Assad regime, was mentioned in a television investigation recently prepared and published by Lebanese Al-Jadid television, in which he spoke about the involvement of Syrian businessmen close to the regime in the explosion of the port of Beirut. The investigation pointed to links between Syrian businessmen George Haswani, Imad and Mdalal Khoury, and the British-registered company “Savoro”, which in 2013 bought the substance “ammonium nitrate” that caused the explosion, killing about 200 people. and injuring more than 6 thousand. Others.
According to the information released, the Lebanese “Hezbollah” has a strong influence in the Yabroud area in Qalamoun, where the assassination attempt took place and the party controlled the area since the early years of the Syrian revolution.
As for George Haswani, who also has Russian citizenship, he is one of the most prominent businessmen in the oil sector close to the Syrian regime. He built his empire through the “HESCO” company in the 1990s. His close relationships link him with officials of the Syrian regime, which he used in oil and energy transportation projects in Syria, and played a mediating role in the purchase of oil by the regime from ISIS-controlled areas, making it one of the names on which the United States and the European Union imposed international sanctions in 2015.
The name George Haswani also emerged as one of the giants of the implementation of oil projects in Syria for the benefit of the Russian company “Stroy Trans Gas”, as it became its executive arm in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria, through your company. He also has a doctorate from the former Soviet Union with a scholarship from the Syrian Ministry of Higher Education, and worked as a professor at the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in accordance with it, and was later appointed general manager of the oil refinery “Baniyas “on the Syrian coast for a short period.
The details were stated by the “Aleppo Today” channel in the following video:
In the countryside of Damascus … an assassination attempt on the son of George Haswani, one of those accused of the attack in the port of Beirut
Report: Ibrahim Hariri pic.twitter.com/aBWqhSPS8Q– Halab Today TV (@HalabTodayTV) January 19, 2021
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