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Fayssal Abbas

Disqualified · Politician · Sanctioned entity

Fayssal Abbas is subject to sanctions. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Faysal Abbas · Fayssal Abbas · فيصل عباس				[sources]
Alias	Faysal Abbas				[sources]
Birth date	1955				[sources]
Place of birth	Hama Governorate · Hama Province · Hama Province Syria				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Syria				[sources]
Country	Syria				[sources]
Citizenship	Syria				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
Country of birth	Syria				[sources]
First name	Faysal · Fayssal				[sources]
Last name	Abbas				[sources]
Title	Dr.				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q5439107				[sources]
Position	Former Minister for Transport. · Minister of Transport (2011-2012)				[sources]
Education	Damascus University · Ohio State University				[sources]
Source link	find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-20	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

Disqualified

— UK Companies House Disqualified Directors, 2025-04-10

The Director Disqualification Sanction was imposed on 09/04/2025.

— UK FCDO Sanctions List, 2025-04-09

Minister of Transport for Syria

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
United Kingdom	Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office · UK		2020-12-31	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of Transport	2011-04-14	2012-06-23

Data sources

UK Companies House Disqualified Directors15,723

Individuals which have been disqualified from holding the post of a company director in the United Kingdom following a court decision.

United Kingdom · CoH

UK HMT/OFSI Consolidated List of Targets7,012

The United Kingdom's consolidated international sanctions list.

United Kingdom · OFSI

UK FCDO Sanctions List5,982

Official register of individuals, entities, and vessel subject to UK sanctions under regulations made pursuant to the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018.

United Kingdom · FCDO

Canadian Consolidated Autonomous Sanctions List5,166

Sanctions imposed by Canada on specific countries, organizations, or individuals under the Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA) and JVCFOA

Canada · Global Affairs Canada

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons277,144

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories381,065

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,388

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata353,755

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ca-sema-2-118-sy-fayssal-abbas · fr-ga-1175 · ca-sema-a41631a5d0d62f0e49c2b33c7735cd7f861964ad · ch-seco-12221 · gb-coh-ym5htgexpzb5zndgfzkrzlosqwo · ca-sema-syria-2-118 · mc-freezes-8194a80e3e57e8c07d5dd29d81a4ccd762719411 · gb-fcdo-syr0045 · gb-hmt-12510 · eu-fsf-eu-2704-2 · eu-tb-logical-6919

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