Mahmoud Al-Zoubi (Arabic: محمود الزعبي, romanized: Maḥmūd az-Zuʿbī;‎ 1935 – 21 May 2000) was Prime Minister of Syria from 1 November 1987 to 7 March 2000.

[6] Al-Zoubi and several senior ministers were officially accused of receiving illegal commissions of the order of US$124 million in relation to the purchase of six Airbus 320-200 passenger jets for Syrian Arab Airlines in 1996.

[7] According to a statement from the Interior Ministry, carried by the official Syrian Arab News Agency, Al-Zoubi shot himself in the head at his home in Dumer outside Damascus.

[1] The statement said Al-Zoubi died by suicide after learning that the Damascus police chief had come to his house to serve a judicial notice to appear before an investigating judge to answer allegations of corruption and other violations "that caused great harm to the national economy.

[9] Sources said the funeral at Kirbit Ghazali, about 100 km south of Damascus, was a simple ceremony limited to his close family members and some of his hometown people.