From November 2024, the month that witnessed the fall of Bashar al-Assad, until the beginning of March 2025, the United Nations, through the World Health Organization office in Damascus, paid $83,330.22 in cash to the company "Shorouk for Protection and Security Guards" for security services in Syria.
Remarkably, according to the payment schedule, the company received five payments in a single day, March 5, 2025, each for more than $11,500!
These payments came despite the company's dark background, which Syrians and human rights organizations accuse of involvement in suppressing protests and of being a security front for one of the regime's most brutal networks, led by Maher al-Assad.
Documents obtained by Zaman al-Wasl also reveal that the United Nations paid the company more than $220,000 in 2024 alone, noting that its cooperation with the company began in 2016, at the height of the violence against civilians.
On December 7, 2023, the Political Keys website published an article discussing Hezbollah's strengthening of its influence in the Syrian city of Homs through cooperation with the Shorouk Company, which provided protection for Hezbollah figures and certain facilities in cooperation with Syrian intelligence.
The continued UN contract with a company accused of crimes against Syrians, even after the collapse of the former regime, raises stark questions about the organization's commitment to its principles and opens a pending case about its role in financing security institutions affiliated with the tyranny.
Before Syria's liberation, the excuse may have been "Assad is pressuring us," but after his escape, what's the justification?
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