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Ihab Makhlouf
Ihab Makhlouf (Arabic: إيهاب مخلوف; 21 January 1973 – 8 December 2024), also known as Ehab Makhlouf, was a Syrian businessman, a brother of businessman Rami Makhlouf, intelligence officer and businessman Iyad Makhlouf and maternal cousin of former President Bashar al-Assad. Makhlouf was sanctioned by the European Union,[1] U.S. Treasury,[2] and UK Treasury[3] for violence against the civilian population during the Syrian uprisings, and for helping Rami Makhlouf or the Syrian government evade sanctions.[2] Business activitiesIhab Makhlouf was the vice-chairman of Syriatel, the Syrian mobile phone company owned by his brother Rami Makhlouf.[4] He resigned from Syriatel in 2020 when his brother Rami Makhlouf fell into dispute with the Syrian government, pledging loyalty to the Bashar al-Assad government.[5] In 2020 the Syrian government awarded Ihab Makhlouf and his partner Kuwaiti businessman and former MP Abdul-Hamid Dashti a contract to operate Syria's duty-free shops.[6][7] DeathMakhlouf was shot to death on 7 December 2024 as he and a number of others, including his brother Iyad, were trying to flee Damascus after the city's fall into Syrian opposition hands; Iyad was wounded in the shooting.[8] References
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