Family of Assad’s weapons chief ‘Dr Gas’ living life of luxury in London as children die back home in Syria

THE family of Syria's chemical weapons chief are leading lives of luxury in London.

Two sons and a brother of Dr Amr Armanazi, 72, have British citizenship despite the scientist being blacklisted by the UK and US for alleged war crimes.

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Deadly sarin nerve gas made by Armanazi's research centre was used in last week's horrific attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun which killed more than 80 people, including 33 children.

Armanazi's older brother Ghayth, 74, a former ambassador of the Arab League in London, and youngest son Bisher, 33, were given a British passport after the US imposed financial sanctions on him in 2012.

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Ghayth has at least two properties in West London - a £1.2m flat in Fulham and another in leafy West Kensington worth £1.5m.

Bisher, who works for a City investment bank, lives in a £700,000 flat in Putney, south west London.

Armanazi's other son Zayd, 36, also a City trader, lives in a £1.1m flat in West Kensington and has held British citizenship since 2009.

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The US sanctions were imposed after he was accused of running facilities producing sarin gas and other weapons of mass destruction.The EU has also imposed sanctions - including a travel ban and freezing of assets - for aiding the repression of the Syrian population and supporting President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

The former computer engineer is the head of Syria's Scientific Studies and Research Centre (SSRC) in the capital Damascus.

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He was a regular visitor to the UK before the civil war broke out and his children were educated at British universities.

Zayd studied electrical engineering at Imperial College London and graduated in 2002.

He then joined UBS investment bank as an equities trader.

His daughter Zeina took a business admin degree at the University of London before getting a job as a senior manager at Nissan in Damascus where she still lives.

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The US State Department has said that Armanazi oversees the "development of biological weapons, chemical weapons and missiles." His family in the UK are said to deny he is involved in military activities and described last week's massacre as a "heinous crime".

A woman answering the intercom at Zayd's home yesterday said: "He's not in and he won't be commenting." A woman at Bisher's home said: "He's not here."

There was no answer at either of Ghayth's properties.