ICIJ @icij.org · Dec 5 Hidden within a drab Damascus shopping center sits the unmarked office of Shorouk for Protection, Guarding and Security Services — an unassuming security company that raked in at least $11 million from the United Nations to protect U.N. offices during the Syrian civil war.
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Now, internal documents reveal the company was secretly owned by the intelligence services of former President Bashar Assad’s regime. As the United Nations poured money into the firm, those intelligence services were engaged in a violent campaign to crush opposition.