An analyst warned that Asma al-Assad, the wife of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, might be in danger in Russia. Reports claim she wants to divorce her husband and move back to the UK, raising concerns from Western intelligence agencies about her safety.
READ MORE:The British wife of Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad may be in danger in Russia amid rumours she has filed for divorce from her husband and plans to move back to the UK, an analyst has warned.
'Life in Moscow, Russia - in a golden cage - is no longer satisfactory for Asma Assad,' he added. 'She wants to move to London, UK and return to work in investment banking at the same time, if possible, to remove part of her family's capital from sanctions.' Bashar Al Assad and his wife Asma Al Assad arrive at official lunch held at the Hotel Marigny in Paris, France on July 14, 2008
Assad's wider family are believed to own dozens of apartments in the Russian capital and he reportedly moved to Moscow some 270 kilograms of gold and £1.6 billion with him when he fled Syria. Speaking to the i Paper, a spokesperson noted Foreign Secretary David Lammy's recent remarks that Mrs Assad 'is a sanctioned individual and is not welcome here in the UK'.
Asma, 49, was born in London and was raised in Acton by Syrian parents. She moved to Syria in 2000 and married the dictator at the age of 25. The Assad family have strong personal ties to the Russian capital, with the ousted president's eldest son a PhD candidate at Moscow State University. Hafez al-Assad's work is written in Russian and is 98 pages long. It is devoted to analytical and algebraic number theory, namely issues of polynomials.
The Syrian dictator's extended family bought up at least 20 Moscow apartments worth more than £30 million in recent years.
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