Bashar al-Assad, who fled to moscow after overthrowing the regime, has been named “Corrupt 2024” by OCCRP. His regime is accused of drug trafficking, smuggling and different crimes value billions of {dollars}.

Bashar al-Assad, the previous Syrian dictator who fled to moscow after overthrowing the regime, has been named the “Corruptor of 2024” by the OCCRP consortium of investigative journalists, writes UNN.

OCCRP, a consortium of investigative journalists, has acknowledged former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, who fled to moscow after his regime was toppled, because the “corrupt man of 2024.

“The Assad regime has been sowing violence, medicine and corruption all through the area, incomes billions of {dollars} from the manufacturing of Captagon (an artificial drug — ed.) and varied forms of organized crime comparable to human trafficking, tobacco smuggling, antiquities theft and arms trafficking,” the OCCRP mentioned in a press launch.

The OCCRP Consortium of Investigative Journalists established the Corruptor of the Yr Award in 2012 for “probably the most notable figures in organized crime and corruption.

Previous recipients of this “award” embody Putin, Prirozhin and Lukashenko.

Recall

After being overthrown by jihadist rebels, former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled to rf together with his household.