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SYRIA - PILLS, RUBBLE AND RANSOM

By Lina Kheir · 4 parts · 14 h 19 min · English

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Syria, 1970 to 2026. Four days after the Assad regime fell, fighters opened a warehouse outside Damascus where amphetamine pills were packed into voltage stabilizers for export. The book follows the money behind it: an uncle whose European fortune French courts traced to Syrian public funds, a cousin awarded the telephones, an army division whose security bureau, reporters found, held $80 million in cash, sieges and prisons turned into markets, aid skimmed at the exchange counter. Then the reckoning: death sentences in absentia, a trafficker freed, settlements worth fortunes, and a new state deciding what to do with the old money. Covers Bashar and Maher al-Assad and the Fourth Armored Division, Rami Makhlouf and Syriatel, Rifaat al-Assad, Mohammad Hamsho and Hamsho International, Samer Foz and Aman Holding, and Hassan Daqqou.

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  1. Part 01

    3:25:01

  2. Part 02

    3:15:26

  3. Part 03

    3:10:37

  4. Part 04

    4:28:02

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