Death
In May 2000, while under house arrest, Zuabi committed suicide by gunshot rather than face trial. The Syrian Arab News Agency's official explanation was that he committed suicide after learning that a Syrian police chief had arrived at his house to serve a judicial notice requiring him to appear before an investigating judge to answer allegations of corruption in relation to the Airbus transaction. Three weeks after Zuabi's death, Hafez Al-Assad also died.
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