 Omar Hayssam

Omar Hayssam (, born January 3, 1963) is a Syrian-born Romanian financier who was sentenced "in absentia" to 20 years in prison after a Romanian court found him guilty of masterminding the kidnapping of three Romanian journalists in Iraq in 2005.Hayssam arrived in Bucharest as a student at the beginning of the 1980s, graduating from the Railroads, Roads and Bridges Faculty of the Bucharest Constructions Institute.