Sources: 41 billion riyals that the Houthi militias have collected zakat and fake projects for their corruption
English - Wednesday 27 May 2020 الساعة 10:40 pm
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Sources in the Zakat Collection Authority, which is run by the Houthi militias, the Iranian arm in Yemen, revealed that this year the authority was able to raise zakat revenues to its account in an unprecedented manner.
The sources told Newsmen that the zakat revenues that the militia's authority was able to collect this year amounted to more than 43 billion riyals, a record compared to what was collected either after the coup of Houthi militias or even before they took control of state institutions.
The sources added, that zakwea revenues for the past year reached 38 billion riyals, an increase of 13 billion riyals from the previous year, while the last statistics of zakkoy revenues before the coup of houthi militias and specifically in 2013 in the Republic amounted to about 12 billion riyals (6.7 billion riyals) supplied from the secretariat of the capital, where the zakat of senior officials amounted to 80% of the revenues depended on by local authorities in all provinces, including the capital Sana'a.
This year, the militias increased the value of zakat imposed on various sectors, zakat al-Fitr imposed on individuals increased to 500 riyals per self, while the value of zakat imposed on private sectors and merchants increased by more than 50%, as traders in the capital Sana'a told Newsmen, that houthi militias increased the value of zakat they were paying by half and that the trader who paid 300,000 riyals zakat last year, he was forced to pay 450,000 riyals this year.
Since the establishment of the militias, the so-called Zakat Authority in May 2018, the authority has been responsible for collecting zakat funds to their accounts and disposing of them without any control measures and in violation of the provisions of the Constitution and the laws in force on the collection of zakat.
In view of the importance of the zakat collection process of the Houthi militias, which was the first justification on which the militias were founded under the leadership of Al-Sa'ra Hussein al-Houthi and announced their rebellion against the state in 2004, the militia leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi devoted the last Ramadan lecture to talk about what he called the importance of zakat and the importance of the commitment of citizens, merchants and the private sector to pay it, which provided new evidence of the process of gaining the militia from collecting and collecting zakat money.
The militia-controlled Zakat Authority spends zakat money, which it collects on projects and programs for militias, their leaders, fighters and supporters.
Although the Houthi Authority does not announce the real statistics of zakat revenues, it is deliberately and to cover up the corruption it exerts in the disbursement of zakat funds it collects to announce the implementation of projects of zakat funds, all projects of zakat, all projects of militias, where the Authority announced and its chairman, The Houthi leader Shamsan Abu Sheman, that the cost of the projects carried out by the Authority since its establishment until before the month of Ramadan this month amounted to about 30 billion riyals distributed to the eight zakat banks, as claimed, an amount that the Authority has received three times since its establishment in 20128.
This year, Houthi leader Abu Shehman announced that his body has carried out projects at a cost of more than seven billion riyals since the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan this year, summarizing them in the zakat projects of Eid al-Fitr and what he calls economic empowerment and The Bank of Sabilallah, a project that distributes food baskets to militia fighters on the fronts and some programs for militias and their followers.
