Sanctions were placed on the Syrian companies, including the commercial bank of business Syria.One is SyriatelA Bank and its subsidiary have been sanctionedThe U.S. is "taking aim" to the financial infrastructure of Al-AssadWashington (cnn) - the United States has slapped sanctions on the largest mobile operator of the Syria and a Syrian Bank and its Lebanese subsidiary.
The Department of the Treasury Wednesday, announced the appointment of the mobile operator Syriatel, the Syria commercial bank and the Syrian Lebanese commercial bank. He said American are "generally prohibited from engaging in commercial or financial operations" with the companies.
Undersecretary of State terrorism and financial intelligence, David s. Cohen, said that the Government is "taking objective" to the "financial infrastructure" President Bashar al-Assad and his regime, criticized for cracking down on peaceful demonstrators in the five months.
Cohen said more high Bank of the Syria has been appointed to provide financial services to the scientific studies of the Syria and centre for research and Tanchon Commercial Bank Korea of the North. They have been cited before for the support they provide weapons of mass destruction proliferation.
The SSRC "control the Syria missile production facilities and oversees the facilities of the Syria to develop non-conventional weapons and their means of delivery".
Tanchon is "the Chief Financial Officer" for the Korea Mining Development Corporation, described as "The Korea of weapons merchant North the Prime Minister and main exporter of goods and equipment related to ballistic missiles and conventional weapons."
Syriatel was designated to be owned or controlled by Rami Makhluf, "a powerful Syrian of human affairs and regime initiated." A cousin and confidant of long-standing al-Assad, he was appointed before "for" improperly benefiting from and to help the public corruption of officials of the Syrian regime.
And as the international powers urged the Syria to undertake serious reforms and stop its bloody repression against demonstrators, Makhluf recently announced it intends to leave his company and go to the work of the charity.
However, the Department of the Treasury noted the majority Makhluf property interest in the company.
"Despite attempts to forget its majority stake in Syriatel, Makhluf continued to own and run the telecommunications company," Treasury said.