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TypePerson[sources]
NameFOZ, Samer · Samer FOZ · Samer Foz · Samer Foz bin Zuhair · Samer Zuhair Foz · 3 more...[sources]
Other nameAl-Fouz · Fawaz · Fawz · Fouz · Foz · 18 more...[sources]
Birth date[sources]
Place of birthHoms · Homs, SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC · Homs, Syrian Arab Republic · Latakia, Homs, SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC · Latakia, Syria · 1 more...[sources]
Gendermale[sources]
NationalitySt. Kitts & Nevis · Syria · Türkiye[sources]
CountryUnited Arab Emirates · Syria[sources]
Country of birthSyria[sources]
First nameSamer · Samer Zuhair · Samir · سامر[sources]
ID Number06010274705 · 784197341865828 · U09471711[sources]
KeywordsBusiness and Trade · قطاع الأعمال والتجارة[sources]
Last nameFOZ · Fawaz · Fawz · Fouz · Foz · 4 more...[sources]
Passport numberU 09471711 · U09471711[sources]
Patronymicزهير[sources]
SummarySyrian businessman. Board Chairman of Al-Foz Holding. CEO of Aman Holding. · رجل أعمال سوري. رئيس مجلس إدارة مجموعة الفوز القابضة ، والرئيس التنفيذي لـمجموعة أمان القابضة[sources]
Websitewww.amangroupco.com[sources]
Wikidata IDQ112902372[sources]
PositionBusinessperson operating in Syria. · Homme d'affaires[sources]
AddressMeadows 2, Street 3, Villa 5, Dubai[sources]
Source linkgels-avoirs.dgtresor.gouv.fr · sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov[sources]
Created at[sources]
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Descriptions

Opened a sugar refining factory ("Samer Foz Factory") in 2021.

Belgian Financial Sanctions,

Syrian national number: 06010274705

Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes,

Leading businessperson operating in Syria, with interests and activities in multiple sectors of Syria’s economy. Samer Foz provides financial and other support to the Syrian regime, including funding the Military Security Shield Forces in Syria and brokering grain deals. He also benefits financially from access to commercial opportunities through the wheat trade and reconstruction projects as a result of his links to the regime.

Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes,

Samer Foz opened a sugar refining factory (“Samer Foz Factory”) in 2021 in support of the Syrian regime’s objective to increase sugar production across the country.

Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes,

Opened a sugar refining factory ("Samer Foz Factory") in 2021.

EU Financial Sanctions Files (FSF),

Opened a sugar refining factory ("Samer Foz Factory") in 2021.

EU Consolidated Travel Bans,

Homme d’affaires influent exerçant ses activités en Syrie, ayant des intérêts et des activités dans de multiples secteurs de l’économie syrienne. Samer Foz fournit un soutien d’ordre financier et autre au régime syrien, y compris en finançant le groupe paramilitaire appelé “Forces militaires de bouclier de sécurité” en Syrie et en offrant des services de courtage sur le marché des céréales. Il tire aussi des profits financiers de son accès à des débouchés commerciaux à travers le marché du blé et des projets de reconstruction, grâce à ses liens avec le régime. Samer Foz a ouvert une usine de raffinage du sucre (“Samer Foz Factory”) en 2021 afin de soutenir l’objectif du régime syrien d’accroître la production de sucre dans l’ensemble du pays.

French Freezing of Assets,

Executive President of Aman Group. Subsidiaries: Foz for Trading, Al-Mohaimen for Transportation & Contracting. Aman Group is the private sector partner in Joint Venture Aman Damascus JSC with Damascus Cham Holding, in which Foz is an individual shareholder. Emmar Industries is a joint venture between Aman Group and the Hamisho Group, in which Foz has the majority stake and is the Chairman.

UK HMT/OFSI Consolidated List of Targets,

سامر الفوز، سامر فوز، سامر زهير فوز. رجل أعمال سوري. رئيس مجلس إدارة مجموعة الفوز القابضة ، والرئيس التنفيذي لـمجموعة أمان القابضة ، والشركات المتفرعة عنها. أبرم صفقة مع الأمير السعودي الوليد بن طلال بيعت فيها حصة الأخير من فندق "الفورسيزيز"، وسط دمشق بحسب الفايننشال تايمز. يعتقد مراقبون أن سامر الفوز واجهة استثمارية للأسد وعائلته، بدلاً من محمد حمشو، ورامي مخلوف. عرف أنه مستثمر يقوم بشراء أملاك رجال الأعمال الذين غادروا سوريا منذ عدة سنوات (قام مؤخراً بشراء كامل شركات عماد غريواتي في سوريا، وشركة حديد حميشو في المدينة الصناعية في حسياء، بالإضافة إلى عدد كبير من شركات ومصانع رجال الأعمال الذين غادروا البلد). تم اعتقاله في تركيا عام ٢٠١٣ بسبب جريمة قتل رجل أعمال مصري يحمل الجنسية الأوكرانية اسمه رمزي متى بعد اعتراف سامر بقتله لأنه نصب عليه بمبلغ 15 مليون دولار (خرج من السجن بعد ستة أشهر فقط بعد أن دفع كفالة مالية بقيمة ثلاثة ملايين ليرة تركية وُصفت بـ "المشبوهة"، وعاد بعدها إلى مسقط رأسه اللاذقية). أوردت مصادر إلى أنه دعم ما يسمى "درع الأمن العسكري"، وهو مجموعة شبه عسكرية تابعة لفرع المخبارات العسكرية داخل اللاذقية. نقلت صحف عن قياديَين في المعارضة السورية، قولهما أنه يستخدم دبي كمركز تجاري يسمح له بتطوير علاقات مع إيران، إلا أن مراقبين في العاصمة السورية يقولون أنه يتقرب إلى رجال أعمال روس مع تصعيد موسكو لجهودها للاستثمار في سوريا. كما أن لديه شركات في لبنان وروسيا. متزوج ولديه ٤ أبناء. فرضت عليه العقوبات الأمريكية في 11/06/2019. فرضت عليه العقوبات الأوروبية في 21/01/2019 شملته العقوبات البريطانيه في 17/02/2020

Samer Foz (a.k.a Samer al-Fouz; Samer Fawz; Samer Fouz) is a Syrian businessman. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Al-Foz Holding Group, and CEO of Aman Holding Group and its subsidiary companies. According to the Financial Times, Foz concluded a deal with Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal in which the latter’s sold his shares of the Four Seasons Hotel in central Damascus. Observers believe that Samer Foz, rather than Muhammad Hamsho and Rami Makhlouf, is the investment front of Bashar al-Assad and his family. Foz has been known as an investor who buys the properties of businessmen who left Syria several years ago. He has recently bought all of Imad Ghreiwati’s Syria-based companies; the Hmisho Steel Company in the industrial city of Hasya; as well as a large number of companies and factories belonging to businessmen who left the country. In 2013, Samer Foz was arrested in Turkey for the murder of Egyptian-Ukrainian businessman Ramzi Matta, after Foz confessed to killing Matta because he had been defrauded of $15 million. Foz was released from prison only six months later, after paying a bail of three million Turkish liras in what was described as a “dubious deal,” and then returned to his hometown of Latakia. Sources report that Foz supported the so-called Military Security Shield Forces, a paramilitary group affiliated with the Military Intelligence inside Latakia. Newspapers quoted two Syrian opposition leaders as saying that Foz uses Dubai as a commercial center that allows him to develop relations with Iran. However, observers in the Syrian capital say Foz is getting closer to Russian businessmen as Moscow steps up its efforts to invest in Syria, and that he also owns companies in Lebanon and Russia. Samer Foz is married and has four children. US sanctions were imposed on Samer Foz on 11 June 2019, and EU sanctions on 21 January 2019.

Syrian businessperson

Wikidata non-official source,

Relationships

Data sources

EU Consolidated Travel Bans3,894

Consolidated information about individuals who have been banned from traveling to the European Union, released as part of the EU Sanctions Map.

European Union · Estonian Presidency of the Council of the EU

Belgian Financial Sanctions6,285

Belgium extends the European FSF sanctions list on the basis of a national terrorist list, issued by the National Security Council.

Belgium · Federal Public Service Finance

UK HMT/OFSI Consolidated List of Targets5,854

The United Kingom's consolidated international sanctions list.

United Kingdom · Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation

US Trade Consolidated Screening List (CSL)18,550

The Consolidated Screening List (CSL) is a list of parties for which the United States Government maintains restrictions on certain exports, reexports, or transfers of items.

United States · Department of the Commerce - International Trade Administration

US OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List28,284

The primary United States' sanctions list, specially designated nationals (SDN) part.

United States · Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

French Freezing of Assets6,257

The register lists all persons, entities and vessels subject to asset freezing measures in force on French territory, pursuant to national, European and international (UN) provisions.

France · Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Recovery

EU Financial Sanctions Files (FSF)6,057

As part of the Common Foreign Security Policy the European Union publishes a sanctions list that is implemented by all member states.

European Union · European External Action Service

Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes8,000

Switzerland manages a sanctions lists with a high degree of detail on the individuals that are subject to it's embargoes.

Switzerland · State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)

External databases

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Wikidata224,896

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External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source


Source data IDs: ofac-26886 · NK-AFqSUnGhZeBNYfo9LuebYM · eu-tb-logical-119208 · fr-ga-1599 · opensyr-node-910 · gb-hmt-13755 · ch-seco-40037 · eu-fsf-eu-4945-87

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