Wife Of Syrian Dictator Added To Sanctions List

Asma al-Assad

Syria: Asma al-Assad To Be Added To EU Sanctions List For Shopping Sprees -- The Telegraph

Asma al-Assad, the British-born wife of the Syrian president, will be added to a European Union sanctions blacklist later this week after details of her online shopping sprees were revealed by leaked emails, The Daily Telegraph has learned.

The 36-year-old former investment banker and other relatives of regime members will join 114 Syrians – topped by her husband Bashar – and 38 organisations subject to freezes on their assets and bank accounts in EU member states.

European diplomats said the decision to add Mrs Assad to the list would be taken on Friday at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.

"A number of family members will be added to the list," said a diplomatic source.

EU and British officials have faith that the move will add to the "stranglehold" on the regime, though it has survived 11 previous rounds of sanctions.

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My Comment: Putting her on this sanctions list will be pointless ... and I do not think she even cares. She will only have someone else .... in another name .... buy the stuff that she wants.