Houthi leaders loot more than YR400 billion within 90 days: Report

A Saudi newspaper revealed the largest looting operation committed by the Houthis in just three months.

The Saudi newspaper Al Watan published lists of their corruption and looting of the people's funds, at a time when the militia authorities rushed to cover up these looting by announcing corruption lists for the first time, referring them to the judiciary for the names of old employees and new investigators, and eliminating people of suspected loyalty to them and Iran.

The disclosure included individual corruption crimes belonging to the Houthi group worth millions of riyals from entities, people, sites and special interests of the Yemeni people. According to the newspaper.

The volume of the stolen sums during a period of only three months from the end of last year 2022 amounted to about SAR1,138,342,511.88 billion, and included government, oil, health, educational and real estate sectors, and the number of people participating and coordinating in the looting operation reached 280 Houthi leaders.

The newspaper confirmed the high intensity of the internal conflict among the Houthi group.

Al-Watan revealed that the Houthi leader, Ali Al-Imad, head of the Oversight Committee and a member of the Political Council, is drowning in major aspects of corruption, indicating that one of his duties is the oversight committee that collects information and prepares corruption files against their political opponents, as well as collecting corruption files against merchants, in order to blackmail them politically and in the media.

Here are some stats and figures:

1. Sixteen Houthi leaders were involved in looting and embezzling YR471,439,100,534 ($39,000,000), from the Road Maintenance Fund in the capital Sanaa.

2. Thirty-nine Houthi officials embezzled YR229.5 million from the Republican Teaching Hospital Authority in the capital Sanaa.

3. Twenty three Houthi leaders were implicated in forging documents and embezzling YR33 million from the Ministry of Religious Endowments.

4. The Houthi treasurer was involved in the embezzlement of YR4.5 million from the Land, Survey and Planning Authority in Dhamar.

5. Six Houthi leaders were involved in the embezzlement of $30,000 from the Yemeni Economic Corporation.

6. Seven Houthi leaders were implicated in the embezzlement of $20 million from the Ministry of Technical Education and Vocational Training.

7. Nine Houthi leaders were involved in seizure of state lands and damage to public money and in the embezzlement of YR3,635,215,203 from the Tax Authority office in Sanaa.



8. Six Houthi leaders were involved in Embezzlement of YR7,358,008 from the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic in the capital's secretariat.


9. Twenty nine Houthi leaders were involved in Embezzlement of YR463,843,501 from the Yemeni Oil Refining Company in the capital Sanaa.

Damage To Public Money

10. Eight Houthi leaders were involved in Embezzlement of YR211,034,386 from the Tax Authority office in Dhamar.

11. A Houthi trader involved in the seizure of state lands with an area of 73,624 square meters in Hodeidah.

12. Fifty seven Houthi leaders were involved in Embezzlement of YR419,899,343 from the Social Welfare Fund in Sanaa.

13. Nine Houthi leaders were involved in Embezzlement of YR126,111,200 from the branch of the oil company in Hodeidah.

14. Five Houthi leaders were involved in Embezzlement of YR67,614.8 from the oil company branch in Hodeidah.

15. Six Houthi leaders were involved in damaging the interest of the state by seizing the land of the Residential Association of the Syndicate of Teaching Professions with an area of 22029.3 square meters in Hodeidah.

16. Score of Houthi leaders were involved in Embezzlement of YR31,309,910 from the General Authority for the Preservation of Historic Cities in the capital Sanaa.

17. Four Houthi leaders were involved in Embezzlement of YR29,243,051 from the General Authority for Fish Resources in the Red Sea, Hodeidah Governorate..

18. A Houthi leader embezzled YR3,543,498 from the branch of the General Authority for Standardization, Metrology and Quality Control in Hodeidah.

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19. Score of Houthi leaders were involved in Embezzlement of YR2,534,475 from the General Electricity Corporation branch in Hodeidah.

20. Six Houthi leaders involved in the embezzlement of YR24,612,068 from the Duties Authority in Hodeidah.

21. A Houthi leader involved in the embezzlement of YR5,745,453 from the tax office in Hodeidah..

22. Fifteen Houthi leaders embezzled YR31,888,431 from the tax office and its branches in the center of Hodeidah.

23. Six Houthi leaders confiscated 1,485 square meters of state-owned land from the branch of the General Authority for Survey Lands and Urban Planning in Hodeidah.

24. Four Houthi leaders confiscated 1,100 square meters of state-owned land from the Yemeni Company for the Industry and Trade of Medicines in Hodeidah.

25. Two Houthi leaders facilitateed the seizure of YR24,027,000 from the Endowment and Guidance Office and its branches in Hodeidah.