Rifaat al-Assad, known as the Butcher of Hama for overseeing the violent suppression of a rebellion in the 1980s, has been accused of war crimes by Swiss prosecutors.
In 2020, he was convicted by a French court of embezzling Syrian state funds and pouring the money into luxury properties, with the French state seizing assets worth 90m.
Ginette Louise Blondel, 40, was banned from working as a director for nine years and fined 210,000 by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission in March.
His elite forces allegedly oversaw the massacre of an estimated 20,000 people in the town of Hama in 1982.
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