El-Msadi Online Register
That Mohammed (Saber) Hamcho (El-Msadi - المصدي) is OFAC-, EU- and UK-sanctioned is already public record. What this register maps is what sits behind that listing: two servers, one registrar account and one Damascus web studio running the digital estate of a Syrian business group, the family network and offshore layer in Dubai, Beirut and Cairo that sit on it.
Network of relations
Three views of the same links. First the whole estate as one map: a solid line is corporate
control (parent/controlled_by — someone's own filing, site or a
designation says so), a dashed line is a family relation the record does not claim as control,
and a dotted line ties an entity to the shared server its domains sit on —
the infrastructure that binds the group, and the register's whole thesis. Nodes are grouped
by cluster; people draw as diamonds, companies as circles, and the two square hubs are the
servers. Hover or tab any node to light up what it
touches; click it to pin it and list its relations under the map, and click it again — or
follow any link in that list — to open the record.
Prefer a list? Browse the same 61 records on the entities page, or read the ownership and family trees below.
Ownership
The corporate-control links alone, as hierarchies. Each root is a holding group; everything
nested beneath it is a documented parent subsidiary. This is the same data as the
solid lines above, read top-down.
- Hamsho International Group Holding group Designated
-
Sama Alsham Group
Holding group
Not designated
- Abou Waheed Operating company Status unknown
- AMH Group Offshore vehicle Not designated
- Arabesque Radio Operating company Status unknown
- Cham Engineering and Contracting Company Operating company Status unknown
- Dawaco Operating company Not designated
- Ebla Airlines Operating company Not designated
- Ebla Trade Off-shore Offshore vehicle Designated
- EGC Company Offshore vehicle Not designated
- Haima Plant Operating company Status unknown
- MEMO Operating company Status unknown
- Palmyra Village & Resort Operating company Not designated
- Sama Al-Fan Production Operating company Not designated
- Sama TV Operating company Status unknown
- SamaTel Operating company Not designated
- Sham Aqua Park Operating company Status unknown
- Tatweer Operating company Not designated
- Union Electrical Group Operating company Not designated
- United Company for Industrial Investments Operating company Status unknown
- Zaman Al-Khair Operating company Status unknown
The family
Mohammed Hamcho and the relatives the register documents — his wife and four children, and the metals cousin Emad. These are family relations, not a claim of corporate control; five of the six were designated together under the Caesar Act in June 2020.
Infrastructure
The whole estate — the Union companies, the Hamsho-named entities, the offshore vehicles and Gaia's genuine third-party clients — lands on one of two machines.
The two-server structure below was found by following the infrastructure outward, not by starting from a list of names. Every domain in the Union cluster resolved to one address; a reverse-IP lookup on that address turned up a second virtual host quietly running the Hamsho Group's own site. An SPF record on one of those domains pointed at a separate machine — Gaia's actual corporate mail server — and reverse-IP on that address surfaced close to ninety hostnames, several belonging to entities named in the sanctions designations. Read the full method note →
65.21.200.112
- Nameservers
- ns1.sama-athletic.com, ns2.sama-athletic.com
- Serves the websites for all ten union-*.com domains, horizon-cont.com, Gaia's own domains, and Gaia's genuine third-party clients.
- The cluster's authoritative nameservers are hosted on this same machine, under sama-athletic.com.
- hamsho-group.com and gaia-printing.com are still configured as virtual hosts here, each with a mail. entry, although neither resolves in public DNS any more.
- Also carries samaalsham-sy.org, which is DNS-configured but serving nothing — apparently a site in preparation.
188.40.140.252
- Nameservers
- ns5.gaia-group.co, ns6.gaia-group.co
- A second Gaia machine, discovered only after reverse-IP on the first. It is the mail host for roughly ninety domains covering the Hamsho-named entities, Sama Alsham's operating companies, and the Dubai and Beirut vehicles.
- ns3.gaia-group.co and ns4.gaia-group.co sit separately on 176.9.55.34.
- Cross-link between the two servers: alsy-gaz.com, whose mail is here, authorises ip4:65.21.200.112 — Server A — to send on its behalf.
- samaalsham.net resolves to 188.40.140.248, a neighbouring address that shares this box's server3.gaia-group.co reverse-DNS entry — the same machine under a second IP, not a separate host.
[email protected]
The same Gmail address receives DMARC aggregate reports for domains on both servers and across both supposed clusters — which is what first bridged the Union estate to the Gaia infrastructure.
- union-copper.com
- p=none; [email protected]
- gaia-services.net
- p=none; [email protected]
- gaia-group.co
- p=quarantine; [email protected]
- awtad-alkheir.vip
- p=quarantine; [email protected]
Not established
What the evidence does not support. These are as much a part of the record as the findings.
A remittance brand, blocked in four spellings
Tahweel is Arabic for money transfer. Four transliterations were registered within one second of each other in September 2015 and all four are now suspended.