... who is owned by the government of Syria, but presently rented out to Hezbollah...
for allegedly benefitting from corruption and adding to the breakdown of the rule of law in the country.The three "have each personally profited from the pervasive corruption and cronyism in Leb
...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them..., enriching themselves at the expense of the Lebanese people and state institutions," the U.S. Treasury said.
"While the Lebanese people face daily struggles to access basic public goods, including medicine, electricity, and food, during a historic and devastating economic crisis, members of the Lebanese political class and their cronies operate with impunity to enrich themselves and hide their wealth," the Treasury said in a statement.
The Treasury said al-Arab has used close political connections and kickback payments to win important public contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars in which he overbilled the government and, in an emergency deal to address Beirut's 2016 garbage crisis, did not resolve the problem.
The Treasury also said he won two government contracts worth $200 million after brokering a political deal in 2014 ahead of elections.
Khoury, it said, used his ties to already-sanctioned Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
chief Jebran Bassil to reap lucrative contracts "while failing to meaningfully fulfill the terms of those contracts."
"Khoury and his company have been accused of dumping toxic waste and refuse into the Mediterranean Sea, poisoning fisheries, and polluting Lebanon’s beaches, all while failing to remedy the garbage crisis," it said.
Sayyed, meanwhile, was accused of skirting banking regulations to move $120 million offshore.
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Jamil al-Sayyed: 2010-09-26 Syrian Judiciary Prepares Arrest Warrants against those being Sued by Sayyed
Jamil al-Sayyed: 2010-09-25 ISF: Sayyed Telephoned Hasan after Hariri's Assassination and Not Other Way Round
Jamil al-Sayyed: 2010-10-02 Sayyed Appeals to STL Urgently Demanding it to Reject Bellemare's Request
Jamil al-Sayyed: 2010-09-26 Syrian Judiciary Prepares Arrest Warrants against those being Sued by Sayyed
Jamil al-Sayyed: 2010-09-25 ISF: Sayyed Telephoned Hasan after Hariri's Assassination and Not Other Way Round