Haswani was a mediator in the deal to free nuns in March 2015. Through close friendship with Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad and others from his family, Haswani has a great deal of influence that he uses to win large contracts in oil and gas projects, such as Tweenan gas (the North Central Region gas project) and the Arab gas pipeline project. Haswani obtained 120 million euros from the
ministry of oil, as compensation for equipment, machinery, and equipment that were subjected to looting and vandalism. The ministry paid this sum under the insurance clause in the contract signed between the two parties, after the site of the Tuenan gas project came out of the government's control in early 2013. Rebels (from the
Qais Al-Qarni Brigade and the
Al-Nusra Front) took over the Twinan gas project in January 2013. They secured the Syrian and Russian engineers for their lives, so they continued to develop the project. In 2014, the Syrian newspaper
Tishreen reported the exact details of Jabhat al-Nusra's takeover of the project. In 2015, the project fell into the hands of
ISIL, which continued to secure Syrian and Russian engineers in exchange for the project's gas production to go to the
Aleppo power plant, which ISIL controls, and the rest to
Homs and
Damascus. According to Abu Khaled, from the opposition Qais al-Qarni Brigade, George Haswani struck a deal with ISIL to share the proceeds of the Tuinan project. The agreement allowed project employees to change their work shifts through a military base of the
Syrian army in
Hama Governorate. Under the deal, the
Syrian government will get 50 megawatts of electricity, ISIL will get 70 megawatts plus 300 barrels of oil condensate, and HESCO company pays ISIL $50,000 monthly to protect the equipment. For his role in that agreement, Haswani was sanctioned by the US Treasury, EU, and UK in 2015. == Links to 2020 Beirut explosion ==