Terror organization: Hezbollah;

Status: is a cousin of President al-Assad and oversees key Captagon production facilities in regime-controlled Latakia, Syria;

Role: In 2020, 84 million Captagon pills produced at a factory owned by Samer in Lattakia, Syria, worth an estimated $1.2 billion were seized at the Italian port of Salerno. Samer reportedly also owns a factory producing Captagon in the Qalamoun region near the Syria-Lebanon border.

Location: Syria;

Born: 19 May 1973;

Place of Birth: Qardaha, Syria;

Gender: Male;

Passport: 86368 (Syria)

National ID No.: 06200000449 (Syria)

Known also as: (Arabic: سامر كمال الأسد) (a.k.a. AL-ASAD, Samer);

Activities:
Samer Kamal al-Assad (Samer) is a cousin of President al-Assad and oversees key Captagon production facilities in regime-controlled Latakia, Syria, in coordination with the Fourth Division and certain associates of Hizballah. In 2020, 84 million Captagon pills produced at a factory owned by Samer in Lattakia, Syria, worth an estimated $1.2 billion were seized at the Italian port of Salerno. Samer reportedly also owns a factory producing Captagon in the Qalamoun region near the Syria-Lebanon border.

Samer is being designated pursuant to E.O. 13582 for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, the GoS. Samer is also being designated pursuant the Caesar Act for being a foreign person that knowingly provides significant financial, material, or technological support to, or knowingly engages in a significant transaction with, the GoS.