News on suspending former Syrian deputy premier
Businessmen coming from Damascus to Paris said that the Syrian deputy Prime minister Salim Yassin, whose assets were reserved under corruption charges, was put into custody in Damascus since Sunday.
They added that "Salim Yassin who was occupying position in the former government was suspended on the eve of reserving his assets."
Meantime, the Syrian al-Baath daily, the mouthpiece of the ruling Baath party in Syria announced on Monday that the authorities " enacted a decision provides for reserving transferred and non- transferred assets for the former deputy prime minister for economic affairs Dr. Salim Yassin and his wife and children, according to a decision released by the ministry of Finance."
Yassin is the third member who has been suspended at charges of corruption in the ministry of Mahmoud al-Zou'bi who committed suicide on May 21 after the Syrian authority decided to reserve his assets." Meantime, news reports in Damascus said that the regional leadership of the Baath party will discuss in its today meeting the question of the links former Syrian officials have to corruption issues, as investigation had showed with the deputy premier for economic affairs Salim Yassin and former transport minister Mufid Abdul Karim.
It was decided that the Attorney General would have sent a note to the minister of Finance Muhammad Khaled al-Mahayeni to release two decisions on " reserving the transferred and non-transferred assets of two officials" But he waited the decision to be taken by the Baath party regional leadership because the two former officials are members of the ruling Baath Party since 1963.
However, the Baath Party leadership today hold its meeting in the presence of almost all of its members. It includes 21 members, two of them were quitted they are Mahmoud al-Zou'bi and Refaat al-Assad and the third retired. He is the former Let gen. Hekmat al-Shehabi, the army former chief of staff.
The current Syrian prime minister Muhammad Mustafa Miro in March formed a government included 22 new ministers and put reforms and fighting of corruption as its priority.
