WASHINGTON: The United States imposed new financial sanctions on Syria yesterday for human rights abuses, by blacklisting a general and a dozen firms and officials.
The Treasury Department sanctioned military leader Brigadier General Qusay Mihoub of the Syrian Air Force Intelligence, saying he had ordered his unit in the city of Daraa to “stop the protesters by all possible means,” including lethal force, during anti-government marches in 2011. It said officers in the unit had shot, beaten, detained, tortured and burned alive detainees.
Among the blacklisted firms were Cyprus-based Piruseti Enterprises Ltd and Frumineti Investments Ltd and their directors, Issa Al Zeydi and Ioannis Ioannou. Lebanon-based DK Group Sari and its general manager Jad Dagher were also designated for their material support to the Syrian regime.
The move freezes any assets the designees may have under US jurisdiction and bars all financial and commercial transactions by any American or US-based persons with them. Afp
