The purchase of the ammonium nitrate that fuelled a deadly explosion at Beirut’s port in August last year has been linked to three Syrian businessmen with alleged ties to Bashar Al-Assad’s regime. Media reports and UK government filings connected Syrian-Russian dual nationals George Haswani and brothers Imad and Mudalal Khuri with the 2013 purchase of chemicals that years later would claim the lives of more than 200 people in Beirut. Information published on Companies House, the British government’s registrar of companies, shows that firms previously directed by Haswani and Imad Khuri have the…
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