Iskandar Safa

Who is Iskandar Safa?

Iskandar Safa and his brother Akram Safa are French businessmen of Lebanese origin who come from a Maronite Christian family. They became famous during the Lebanese hostage crisis in 1987–88 for suspected involvement in financial transactions associated with a suspected ransom paid to obtain the hostages' liberation.

They were the directors of Triacorps, and also worked with the Sofremi. They are the owner of the CMN, through which they were suspected of providing illegal funding to Jean-Charles Marchiani, the former second-hand man of former Interior Minister Charles Pasqua. Iskandar Safa is also managing director of Abu Dhabi MAR, a holding company that owns CMN among other shipyards.

They have also been indicted for the suspected buying of a friendly article published in 2005 in Le Point, titled "Un PDG interdit de séjour".

The cases were dropped in 2009 by the French prosecutors for lack of evidence.