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Rami Makhlouf, former backer of Assad regime, also barred from doing business with state
One of Syria’s wealthiest businessmen has said that the government of his cousin Bashar al-Assad has ordered the seizure of his assets and barred him from doing business with the state for five years, escalating a dispute deeply mixed in family affairs.
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