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Inside the Hunt for Assad’s Billions

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The Syrian regime has as much as $25 billion stashed in offshore tax havens and investments across the Middle East. Finding that fortune could be big business for an elite group of modern-day treasure hunters.

Eli Lake
Eli Lake
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Khaled al-Hariri, Reuters / Landov

Even as the war in Syria rages and Bashar al-Assad clings to power, the race to find the regime’s vast—and mostly hidden—fortune is already underway.

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