Bashar Assad's regime continues to put pressure on businessmen and traders in Syria and extort money from them on allegations of corruption. Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife Asma are also extorting money from businessmen who are members of their families in order to increase their capital.

Corruption in the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad continues, not only on the part of his cousin and partner Rami Makhluf, 

Press sites affiliated with the Syrian regime have recently published two letters from the Syrian Ministry of Commerce signed by Minister Amro Salem sent to the Minister of the Interior and the head of the Consumer Protection Directorate exposing large amounts of embezzlement and theft of large quantities of sugar and rice from Syrian trade allowances "Owned by businessman Triff Al-Akhers, aunt of President Asma al-Assad's wife.

In the letters sent there was an instruction to transfer the subject and the offenses he committed to legal treatment and to follow the results of the treatment.
The Syrian Ministry of Commerce accused the company owned by Triff al-Akhars of stealing the white sugar imported to Syria in order to trade it not for the purposes for which it was intended. Fake.

Tarif al-Akhars is considered one of the prominent businessmen in Syria, who almost completely controls the import of sugar and sunflower oil, owns a distillery and white sugar plant, and also owns an olive oil plant and crude and imported vegetable oils, he also owns companies in several investment areas, such as Real estate, banks, insurance companies, and land transportation.

Tarif al-Akhars' associates claim that the sugar issue discovered in the company's warehouses is part of a conspiracy by the Syrian regime to pressure al-Aharz and to collect monetary profits from it as part of the regime's latest campaign against most Syrian traders and businessmen.

A few days ago, the Syrian Ministry of Finance announced a decision to confiscate the money of a group of Syrian merchants and companies, including the wives of their wives. Jandli, and of the Alshaar General Commercial Services Center in the city of Homs.

The security forces of the Assad regime arrested officials and accountants of the Elmatin trading company and of food products and an olive oil factory in the city of Homs on suspicion of transferring money illegally and evading taxes.

The Syrian regime of Bashar Assad is putting pressure on the traders in Homs to extort money from them, each according to his wealth and status, this campaign is also meant to put pressure on some of the traders to leave Syria to evacuate the economic arena in favor of new traders directly linked to the Syrian presidential palace.

The Syrian regime sees the older generation of traders as an economic threat to the regime and is trying to create a new generation of traders who are financially loyal to it and willing to share profits with President Bashar Assad and his wife Asma.

The Syrian Ministry of Health has also issued a directive to destroy all Ibn al-Nafis products for natural products owned by businessman Abed al-Qader, claiming that he does not have the necessary approvals from the Ministry of Health. The regime and pay him money.

According to Syrian sources, the Syrian Ministry of Finance ordered the confiscation of money from 650 merchants in the Aleppo area on charges of smuggling money, including businessman Hisham Dahman, known for his loyalty to President Bashar Assad.

It seems that the greed of President Bashar Assad and his wife Asma has no limits, the president's wife has no problem extorting money from her family, this norm of corruption at the top of the Syrian government is leading in a country suffering from the severe economic crisis and subject to heavy US sanctions.

The wife of President Asma al-Assad understands the importance of economic power in Syria and its impact on politics and the decision-making process. Therefore, it has devoted all its energy in the last two years to take over the centers of economic power in Syria.

Asma Assad heads a body known as the "Financial Bureau of the Presidential Palace" and has set the goal of harming the economic empire of the Makhlouf family and building power centers for the Al-Ahras family to which it belongs, but it also does not hesitate to blackmail its family members for personal economic gain.