Senior Houthis involved in embezzlement of public funds

At a time when the Iranbacked Houthis continue to impose the so-called (Code of Functional Conduct) in Public Service Units in all ministries, institutions, sectors and governorates, with the aim of tightening control over the state's administrative apparatus, consolidating their strict religious and sectarian authority, chapters of a new and major corruption case have unfolded at the top of the hierarchy of the militia’s power, which claim and pretend to fight corruption while they are mired in it up to their heads.

Special documents revealed a case of embezzlement, appropriation of public money, forgery and harm to the interest of the state dating back to 2019, in which the so-called "General Secretariat of the Presidency" and the "Supreme Revolutionary Committee", which was headed by the prominent Houthi leader Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi, were involved.

The documents, which include many Houthi corruption cases, confirmed that the list of defendants involved in the seizure of millions of riyals including the treasurer of the "Supreme Revolutionary Committee", the deputy head of the financial department, the director general of accounts in 2016 and his successor in 2017, the director of the audit department and the director of the accounting department.

Mohammed Ali al-Houthi is considered one of the pillars of the Houthis' authority, and he now occupies the position of a member of the so-called "Supreme Political Council" in Sana'a and head of the so-called "Supreme Justice System" that controls all matters of the judiciary, justice, courts, and prosecution offices.

The reports of the United Nations Panel of Experts on Yemen confirm that the Houthis were able, by controlling state-owned income-generating entities and collecting taxes imposed on people and companies, to collect and mobilize billions of Yemeni riyals annually to finance their war.

The war sparked by the coup militia placed Yemen among the ten most corrupt countries in the world, as Yemen ranks 174 out of 180 countries in the Corruption Perceptions Index issued by Transparency International for the year 2021.