How Criminal Funds Are Being Laundered in Post-Assad.
Syria: Hundreds of thousands of Syrian families continue to live in tents along the Turkish border in northern Syria, as well as in Lebanon and Jordan. Nearly a year has passed since the fall of the Assad regime and the takeover by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)—the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda—on December 8, 2024.In January 2025, al-Qaeda leaders held a secret meeting.
Footage of the gathering, which deliberately concealed the faces of the faction leaders, was later released. Dubbed the “Victory Conference,” the meeting resulted in the declaration that Abu Muhammad al-Julani was the president of Syria—even before any formal Syrian national conference was held.
That conference was hastily convened at the end of February 2025. In a chaotic and improvised manner, al-Julani announced the beginning of a five-year transitional phase for Syria..
Since then, highly suspicious projects have begun to emerge. The first was the takeover of Mount Qasioun, Damascus’s main tourist attraction, orchestrated by Musa al-Omar—a journalist with extensive business interests in Qatar. This was followed by the announcement of a series of fictitious megaprojects, including the Damascus Towers and the Damascus Metro, along with dozens of dubious agreements signed by the al-Julani regime.
These initiatives have been actively promoted by al-Omar, widely believed to have been planted in Damascus by Qatar to facilitate the laundering of billions of dollars. The funds do not originate solely from Qatar; they are also channeled through Qatar and managed in coordination with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
Since early summer 2025, serious suspicions have arisen regarding the involvement of Tom Barrack—Donald Trump’s envoy to Syria—in money-laundering operations on behalf of individuals implicated in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Over time, hundreds of millions of dollars have surfaced through carefully organized campaigns disguised as regional humanitarian or reconstruction initiatives, all overseen by the al-Julani network.
These funds represent the laundering of money seized in recent years by HTS and its affiliated groups. Additional evidence includes investigations confirming the resale of Captagon that was officially declared confiscated, as well as the systematic theft and trafficking of Syrian antiquities.
The investigative team at the X Minority Investigative Agency—which operates X.M News and its associated press release service—began collecting and analyzing this information in March 2025, shortly after the first major massacre following the fall of Assad.
It was at that point that the true sources of these funds started to become clear.Part of this comprehensive investigation has been submitted by X Minority to international organizations responsible for combating money laundering.
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