2021-04-23

BEIRUT - In May, 2021 the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport in Lebanon issued an official statement with a warning for agents in Sweden and Germany, who sell airline tickets to Syria via Beirut. The goal of these ticket sales offices is to defraud Swedish residents, the Ministry said.

It happened just after two weeks of Daraj publication in line with a Money Trail-supported cross-border investigation 'The way to Damascus'. Also, one of the biggest ticket sales agents located in Jönköping Elias Dawod (Sweden) arranging flights to Syria removed all the labels from the front of its building and closed its office.

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Ministry of Transport in Lebanon issued a warning to ticket sales agents in Sweden (2021)