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Ali Al-Zafir

Politician · Sanctioned entity

Ali Al-Zafir is subject to sanctions. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Ali Al Zafir · Ali Al-Dafeer · Ali Al-Zafir · Ali Zafir · עלי אל דפיר · 1 more...				[sources]
Alias	Ali Al Zafir · Ali Al-Dafeer				[sources]
Birth date	1962-05-15				[sources]
Place of birth	Tartous · Tartous : SYRIE · Tartus · Tartus, SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC · Tartus, Syria; · 1 more...				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Syria				[sources]
Country	Syria				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
Country of birth	Syria				[sources]
First name	Ali				[sources]
Last name	Al Zafir · Al-Dafeer · Al-Zafir				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q60565208				[sources]
Position	Former Minister of Communications and Technology · Former Minister of Communications and Technology. · Minister of Communications and Information Technology (2016-2018) · ancien ministre des communications et de la technologie				[sources]
Source link	eur-lex.europa.eu · gels-avoirs.dgtresor.gouv.fr				[sources]
Last change	2025-11-06	Last processed	2025-12-01	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

Former Minister of Communications and Technology under the former al-Assad regime. As a former Government Minister, shares responsibility for the former al-Assad regime’s violent repression of the civilian population.

— Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes, 2025-06-20

Ancien ministre des communications et de la technologie sous l’ancien régime d’al-Assad. En tant qu’ancien ministre du gouvernement, il partage la responsabilité de la répression violente exercée par l’ancien régime d’al-Assad contre la population civile.

— French National Asset Freezing System, 2025-06-06

Linked to Bashar Asad The Director Disqualification Sanction was imposed on 09/04/2025.

— UK FCDO Sanctions List, 2025-04-09

Linked to Bashar Asad

— UK HMT/OFSI Consolidated List of Targets, 2023-04-20

(also ALI AL-DAFEER)

— US SAM Procurement Exclusions, 2025-07-23

Syrian politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-01-07

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Monaco	La Principauté de Monaco		-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of Communications and Information Technology	2016-07-03	2018-11-26

Data sources

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

Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes7,773

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

Switzerland · SECO

UK HMT/OFSI Consolidated List of Targets7,012

The United Kingdom's consolidated international sanctions list.

United Kingdom · OFSI

Monaco National Fund Freezing List5,819

A list of entities subject to fund and economic resource freezing procedures.

Monaco · Monaco

US SAM Procurement Exclusions105,654

A database of suppliers who have been excluded from participating in US federal procurement.

United States · GSA

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories381,009

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

EU Financial Sanctions Files (FSF)7,474

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

European Union · DG FISMA

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons277,105

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Belgian Financial Sanctions6,600

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

Belgium · FOD

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

EU Council Official Journal Sanctioned Entities2,805

Supplemental list of people, companies, and organizations sanctioned for involvement in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

European Union · Council

French National Asset Freezing System5,871

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 · DGT

EU Consolidated Travel Bans4,182

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

European Union · Council

External databases

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

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,628

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata353,741

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: fr-ga-1434 · ofac-20965 · gb-fcdo-syr0010 · ch-seco-35639 · usgsa-s4mr5csg6 · usgsa-s4mr5cztz · eu-oj-3fd266687725590430735ec3f082a91bf8d169e8 · usgsa-s4mr5ctlx · ca-sema-2-202-sy-ali-al-zafir · ca-sema-syria-2-202 · ca-sema-d740165760bf86997e99c2d6f6840ff5ebe62cb2 · mc-freezes-870a40e7068fae4f43b9c7e67a873130f1dbd2b1 · eu-fsf-eu-3823-5 · gb-hmt-13398 · eu-tb-logical-110111

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