 He married Adela, had seven children, and became a Romanian citizen after the Romanian Revolution of 1989.Hayssam continued doing business after 1989, which resulted in problems with the Financial Guard.In the kidnapping incident, Prima TV reporter Marie Jeanne Ion, cameraman Sorin Mişcoci, and Ovidiu Ohanesian, a journalist working for the newspaper "România Liberă", were abducted on March 28, 2005 in Baghdad, where they were covering the Iraq War.