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Muhammad Zaytun

PersonBorn 20 May 1951Last read from source 19 Oct 2026

Former Head of General Intelligence Directorate (a.k.a General Security Directorate, State Security)

Sanctioned · Switzerland SECO, UK OFSI
Listed by 2 authoritiesSY
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Sanctions
Own listings
0
Companies
Roles recorded
0
Designated
Of those companies
1
Countries
Connections
1
Identifiers
Documents
3
Sources
17 names on file
Listed in their own right2

Named directly by Switzerland SECO, UK OFSI.

Director of a company that is listed—

No company role is recorded for this person by any register read.

Sanctions2 active

  • Switzerland SECOActive

    Syria

    Designation date not published by this authority · Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

  • UK OFSIActive

    Syria

    Designation date not published by this authority · UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

Companies & roles

No company role is recorded for this person. Roles come from national business registers, and a sanctioned individual will usually have none here — the registers this system reads cover a different set of countries from the sanctions lists.

On the record

Name
Muhammad Zaytun
Also known as
Muhammad Dib Zaytun · Mohammed · Zeitoun · Muhammad Deeb Zaitoun
Date of birth
20 May 1951
Place of birth
Jubba, Damascus province, Syria
Nationality
SY
Position
Former Head of General Intelligence Directorate (a.k.a General Security Directorate, State Security)
First recorded here
8 Aug 2026

Exposure

Medium risk2 of 5 components assessed — no composite shown, because how much was read is itself unknown here
Sanctions and debarments68

Sanctioned by 2 authorities: UK OFSI, Switzerland SECO. Confirmed present in a source snapshot within the last 90 days.

Jurisdiction70

Syria is named on a jurisdiction designation list — European Commission, EU list of high-risk third countries (AMLD Art. 9), section I: “High-risk third countries which have provided a written high-level political commitment to address the identified deficiencies and have developed an action plan with FATF.” The designation is of the jurisdiction, not of this record.

Not scored

Company associations

Not scored. No company role is recorded for this person, which is an absence of records rather than a finding.

Evidence coverage

Not scored. The evidence ledger records which sources were read for a COMPANY; it holds no per-person rows, so there is no coverage figure to price in here. The sources behind this record are listed under Evidence.

Adverse media

Not scored. Media coverage is not linked to individuals in this system at all, only to companies, and even there it covers a small fraction of the records.

Band drawn from the components that could be measured, methodology v5. The unscored ones above are gaps in what was read, not findings of nothing. Not a compliance determination — check the underlying listings before acting on anything here.

Recent activity

  1. 19 Oct 2026Last read from source