ICIJ @icij.org · Dec 5

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.

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ICIJ · Dec 5

In one leaked memo, Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad wrote that ensuring Shorouk and other security firms maintained their U.N. contracts was important because their personnel were monitoring U.N. employees for Assad. www.icij.org/investigatio...