{"id":38417,"date":"2013-09-30T20:24:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T16:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=38417"},"modified":"2013-09-30T20:24:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T16:24:08","slug":"paris-prosecutor-probing-fortune-of-assads-uncle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=38417","title":{"rendered":"Paris Prosecutor Probing Fortune of Assad&#8217;s Uncle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Rifaat-al-Assad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-38415\" alt=\"Rifaat al-Assad\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Rifaat-al-Assad.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Rifaat-al-Assad.jpg 600w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Rifaat-al-Assad-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Rifaat-al-Assad-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Paris prosecutor&#8217;s office has opened an investigation into the real estate holdings of Syrian President Bashar Assad&#8217;s uncle after international watchdogs accused him of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Sherpa and Transparency International filed a complaint earlier this month, alleging that Rifaat Assad is worth several million euros and that the sum is far beyond what he earned as a Syrian military commander or as the country&#8217;s vice president. The complaint alleges that this fortune, including several dozen Paris apartments and a luxurious townhouse, was built by stealing from Syrian public funds and by abusing his power.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor&#8217;s office opened a preliminary investigation Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, Rifaat Assad told The Associated Press that he had lost all his money in the stock market and lived off the largesse of his children.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paris prosecutor&#8217;s office has opened an investigation into the real estate holdings of Syrian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,224,137],"tags":[2441],"class_list":["post-38417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-world","tag-rifaat-assad","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}