Beirut blast chemicals possibly linked to Syrian businessmen - report, company filings

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Beirut blast chemicals possibly linked to Syrian businessmen: report, company filings

FILE PHOTO: A still image taken from a drone footage shows the damage two days after an explosion in Beirut's port area, Lebanon August 6, 2020. Reuters TV/via REUTERS

The U.S. Treasury accused Mudalal Khoury in 2015 of “an attempted procurement of ammonium nitrate in late 2013”. It sanctioned his brother Imad a year later for engaging in business activities with Mudalal. Haswani was sanctioned in 2015 on charges of helping Assad’s government to buy oil from Islamic State militants, which he has denied.

Dozens of companies can share listed addresses and such links do not necessarily prove company owners are connected. But it is rare for firms to move their registers, particularly to the same address on the same day, according to a Reuters review of filings by hundreds of companies. Reuters could not reach Haswani for comment. His son told Reuters in Moscow that his father was unlikely to comment on allegations of links to the chemicals because they are “total nonsense”.The findings about the possible links between Savaro and the Syrian businessmen have raised questions among some in Beirut over whether the ammonium nitrate, which is used for fertilizer but also explosives, may have been destined for Syria.

 

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Actually it's not all it's fault it might be improper storage out their

It's a disgrace to Interpol and such other Arrogant Security bodies that TO DATE, BEIRUT EXPLOTION ISN'T URAVELED YET!

So you have not been able to blame this on Trump. Yet.

The corruption in Lebanon is off the charts, they are trying to include more foreign players to ease up the pressure on them It's just pathetic. A substantial change is needed, those armed factions and mafia must be eliminated before any progress could even be possible.

The attempts to try and use this tragedy for political ends are getting quite desperate.

It was not his fault the explosives were improperly stored and not moved to a safe place.

secupp We thought it was somehow connected to Putin as soon as it happened as a warning shot to the U.S. through an ally. This certainly does not eliminate that possibility.

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Possibly? What kind of news is that? If it is just an assumption without fact then STOP 🛑 spreading it

Yeah news about « possibly » now 😳 journalists inquiring about facts are DEAD

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