Last Updated: July 18, 2025
Waseem Omar AL-MASALMA
Aliases
وسيم عمر المسالمة
DoB
1981-08-27
Linked to
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32023R0844
Official reason
Waseem Omar al-Masalma is a leader of a regime-affiliated militia. Waseem Omar al-Masalma is involved in the regime-led trade in Captagon in Southern Syria, especially in Deraa. The Captagon trade has become a regime-led business model, enriching the inner circle of the regime and forming its lifeline. He therefore benefits from and supports...
Other Information
Date of listing
2023-04-24
Program information
Authority
EU
Program
Restrictive measures against Syria
Regime
EU country specific
Target State
Syria
Measures
Asset freeze and prohibition to make funds available, Restrictions on admission
Sanctions Portfolio
- All assets of the listed persons and entities should be frozen. It is also prohibited to make any funds or assets directly or indirectly available to them. - Member States shall enforce travel restrictions on persons listed in the Annex I of Council Decision 2013/255/CFSP.
Official Information
On 27 May 2013, the Council of the EU adopted conclusions in which it condemned the violence and the continued widespread and systematic gross violations of human rights in Syria, the massacres committed by the Syrian armed forces and its militias, all instances of hostage taking of peacekeepers, and the atrocities committed by the Syrian regime. I...
Program URL
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02013D0255-20230720