Iskandar is being sued in London by the Republic of Mozambique in an alleged corruption scandal following his win in similar case (all charges dismissed) in New York in 2019 ..[3] Safa also owned Valmonde which publishes the weekly Valeurs Actuelles, a conservative right-wing publication .
[2] From 1978 to 1981, Iskandar Safa was working as a site engineer for INECC at the King Abdulaziz Military Academy project in Salbukh, Saudi Arabia near Riyadh.
In July of the same year, he withdrew from the process due to a competing bid from French billionaire, Xavier Niel, as well as opposition from the newspaper's editorial staff.
[11] May 2020 saw the announcement that the German naval yards in Kiel, owned and run by Safa's Privinvest Holding SAL group, were entering into a long-term co-operation agreement with the Lürssen shipyard company based in Bremen.
[14] As Safa was a Maronite Christian, he offered unlimited supplies of marble from the quarry he owned in southern France to aid in the rebuilding of Notre Dame Cathedral, devastated by fire in April 2019.