The financial pump of the Damascus regime comes out of its silence. On Facebook, Rami Makhlouf, the first cousin of Bashar al-Assad, who seized his goods, asked Thursday evening the raïs not to strip him completely in the name of an fight against corruption, of which he has been for fifteen years, the main figure in Syria. It is the first time that "Rummy", as many Syrians call it, has appeared in public. "I never imagined seeing him like this imploring Bashar al-Assad," said a Syrian, Friday, joined the phone.
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"I will not embarrass you (...). When I saw that I was a burden for you, I abandoned my business, " said uneasy Rami Makhlouf, head of an empire whose flagship is the mobile phone company SyriaTel . "I paid exactly what I owed, but if necessary, I will pay again, and distribute my money to the poor, " he added , "but I will not be able to pay everything all at once" , however warned
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