A day after his house exploded with derivatives .. Al Houthi militia freed a black market trader and brought him back to work
English - Saturday 27 June 2020 الساعة 04:55 pm
Sanaa, Newsyemen, Private:
Local sources in the capital, Sana'a, revealed that the Houthi militia, has realised a black market trader whose house exploded in Al-Sinainah district in the capital, as a result of storing large quantities of oil derivatives.
The Al-Sinainah area, west of the capital, Sanaa, witnessed the explosion of a house of a black market trader of oil derivatives on Monday, which led to a major fire that spread to many neighboring houses, causing the death of two people and damaging more than 30 neighboring houses.
According to the sources, Houthi leaders released the merchant Naji al-Hakem, one of the merchants close to the militia leaders, just one day after his arrest against the background of the explosion in his house that he was using as a warehouse to store oil products and sell them in the black market at a time when the capital Sana'a and the militia control areas are experiencing a contrived crisis by the militias.
While the owners of the houses adjacent to the merchant’s house, Naji Al-Hakem, demand compensation for what happened to their homes as a result of the explosion and the massive fire, the sources confirmed that the Houthi militias released Al-Hakem after he paid them money for them and promises to talk with the affected people.
The sources pointed out that the assistants of the merchant, Naji Al-Hakem, headed by one of his brothers, re-sold oil derivatives on the black market in Al-Sinainah and Al-Sitteen Street in the capital, in full view of the leaders of the Houthi militia, where the price of gasoline (20) liters is about 21 thousand riyals.
The sources accused the Houthi leadership of turning the issue of Al-Hakem’s house explosion into an issue of blackmail and obtaining funds, and seeking to confiscate the rights of those affected citizens whose homes were burned by the explosion and the massive fire of those large quantities of oil derivatives that were stored in merchant’s house.
It is worth noting that most of the black market traders of oil derivatives in the capital and militia control areas are either from the militia leaders or from merchants who have close relations and friendship with the leaders of Houthi and who use them during the fabrication of oil derivatives crises to obtain fictional profits as a result of selling derivatives in the black market.
