The Paris Court of Appeal confirmed, Thursday, September 9, the conviction of Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, to four years of imprisonment for having fraudulently constituted in France a heritage valued at 90 millions of euros.
The 84-year-old former vice-president of Syria, who has lived in exile since 1984, was found guilty of "organized gang money laundering, embezzlement of Syrian public funds and aggravated tax evasion".
As in the first instance, he sees all the real estate concerned confiscated by the courts.
>> Read also on France24.com: Badly acquired: Rifaat al-Assad, from "butcher of Hama" to real estate tycoon
With AFP
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