Mazen Al-Tarazi
Sanctioned Syrian-Canadian businessman
Mazen Samir Al-Tarazi (Arabic: مازن الترزي; born 1962), also known as Mazen Al Tarazi and Mazin Al Tarazi, is a Syrian-Canadian businessman with close ties to the former Ba’athist Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad.
He has significant activities in the media sector in Kuwait. He is the founder and CEO of Marketing Group for Advertising, Publishing and Distribution and the Dar al-Hadaf Newspaper Company, which he founded with Kuwaiti businessman Ahmed Al-Jarallah. Until December 2022, he was a board member of Dar Al Seyassah Company for Printing, Publishing and Distribution WLL in Kuwait, the publisher of the Arab Times and Al-Seyassah newspapers.
He was sanctioned by the United Kingdom and European Union for his material support to the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad.
Early life
Al-Tarazi was born in Damascus in 1962, and he started his career in Kuwait as a printing press worker at Al Anba and Al Rai newspapers, then as a manager at Al Waseet classified advertising paper owned by Syrian businessman Bashar Kiwan.
Career and connection with Bashar al-Assad
He initially became a manager at Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Seyassah.
He later partnered with the owner of Al-Seyassah, Kuwaiti businessman Ahmed Al-Jarallah, to launch weekly magazine Al-Hadaf operating under Dar al-Hadaf Newspaper Company.
He was named in the Panama Papers as the sole owner of First Kingston Investments Ltd., registered in the British Virgin Islands. He is partner in Al-Waseet classifieds paper in Jordan with Syrian-French businessman Bashar Kiwan
Al-Tarazi developed close ties to the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad.
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