France sentences Rifaat al-Assad 4 years to prison

SANAA, Sept. 09 (YPA) – The Paris appeals court on Thursday, Rifaat al-Assad, 4 years to prison in charges with ill-gotten gains.

The court backed a guilty verdict against, Rifaat al-Assad, who is the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s uncle, for misappropriating public funds in Syria, laundering the spoils and building a vast property portfolio in France.

It order an initial trial for confiscation his worth that estimated 90 million euros ($106 million).

Last June, the court in Paris found Assad guilty of organized laundering of funds embezzled from the Syrian public briefcase between 1996 and 2016, as well as tax fraud.
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