The Syrian rebel leader touted as the West’s new hope to take on both militant Islamists and the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has been forced to deny widespread allegations of theft and war profiteering.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Jamal Maarouf, appointed to head a new coalition of forces, the Syrian Revolutionary Front, rejected allegations that over the three years of war he had accumulated a fortune and a large collection of cars for his personal use.
He said his critics, many of them heads of rival rebel brigades, were “latecomers to the revolution” who resented his leadership and were in many cases trying to promote an Islamist ideology at odds with the moderate politics that has won him outside support.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10709608/Syrian-opposition-leader-denies-being-a-war-profiteer.html