Damascus confiscates Lebanese PM Saad al-Hariri’s properties

CAIRO – 2 September 2017: Damascus issued a decision to confiscate all the properties of Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri in Syria, Syrian opposition sources told Pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat on Thursday.

According to the Syrian opposition, the Syrian regime decided to transfer al-Hariri’s properties to the ownership of the Syrian state, after Hariri accused the neighboring country of financing and arming terrorists.


The Syrian decision to confiscate PM Saad al-Hariri properties according to Asharq al-Awsat

The decree for the confiscation of movable and immovable property came as part of a series of decisions issued by the Syrian authorities against anti-Assad politicians, intellectuals and opposition activists such as Lebanese MP Oqab Saqr, a close ally to al-Hariri and key member of the March 14 Alliance, al-Sharq al-Awsat added.