Assets freeze confirmed for Bashar al-Assad’s uncle

After the sister of the Syrian leader, it is now her maternal uncle who is being kept by the EU justice system on the black list (drawn up in 2011 by the Council of the EU) of people whose assets in the EU are frozen and whose entry into or transit through EU territory are banned (Case T-509/11). The EU General Court took the view that the Council “has succeeded in proving that Mr Makhlouf is a member of the…