Iskandar Safa is a French businessman of Lebanese origins (Maronite Christian family), who became famous during the Lebanese hostage crisis

Lebanon hostage crisis

The Lebanon hostage crisis refers to the systematic kidnapping in Lebanon of 96 foreign hostages of 21 national origins – mostly American and western European – between 1982 and 1992...

 in 1987-88 and suspected financial transactions of the ransom. He was the director of Triacorps, and also worked with the Sofremi.

He is the owner of the CMN (Construction mécaniques de Normandie), suspected of illegal fundings of Jean-Charles Marchiani

Jean-Charles Marchiani

Jean-Charles Marchiani, is a French prefect and politician. He is also a former officer of the French external intelligence agency .Jean-Charles Marchiani is a counter-terrorism expert, especially focused on Islamic fundamentalism...

, the former second-hand man of former Interior Minister Charles Pasqua

Charles Pasqua

Charles Pasqua is a French businessman and Gaullist politician. He was Interior Minister from 1986 to 1988, under Jacques Chirac's cohabitation government, and also from 1993 to 1995, under the government of Edouard Balladur...

. Safa is managing director of Abu Dhabi Mar.

He has also been indicted for the suspected buying of a friendly article published in 2005 in Le Point

Le Point

Le Point is a French weekly news magazine. It was founded in 1972 by a group of journalists who had, one year earlier, left the editorial team of L'Express, which was then owned by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, a député of the Parti Radical...

, titled "Un PDG interdit de séjour".