Embassies under Houthis controll.. dens of drug and arms trade

A reliable source in Sanaa revealed that Houthi leaders have turned the Yemeni embassies in Tehran and Damascus into dens of drug brokers and arms dealers, stressing that the two embassies drain annually more than $734 thousand in operating expenses and one million 589 thousand and 883 dollars in salaries for diplomats and local workers.

The source said that those sums transferred by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the coup government at intervals are a drain on the national economy and an export of hard currency abroad, explaining that these sums are added to the exorbitant sums of corruption of the ministry itself, which amount to about one billion Yemeni riyals, according to the Saudi newspaper Okaz.

He added, "Despite all this corruption, the militia leaders in those two countries claim that they suffer from a severe deficit and are demanding an increase in the budget allocated to them," pointing out that there is another corruption in the two embassies and consulates represented in auditors' revenues, arms deals and drug smuggling.

The source stated that the Yemeni embassy in Tehran is working on coordinating between drug dealers and arms deals in Iran and militia leaders at home, signing a number of them, defining the mechanism, corridors and main lines of the smuggling process and delivering shipments without any obstacles.