A suspicious Houthi convoy reminds of state employees' salaries in Sanaa
English - Sunday 27 September 2020 الساعة 11:14 am
Sanaa, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
On the Square of the Sabein Square in the capital, the Houthi militia - the Iranian arm in Yemen - showed what it said was a financial convoy of "more than half a billion riyals" to support the battlefronts and their fighters.
The militia displayed quantities of paper money (1000 riyals denomination) that were stacked in the form of a pyramidal triangle, in the presence of the leaders of the capital, Sana'a (loyal to the group).
Officials in the capital said that the convoy was provided by residents of the capital, Sana'a, in which state employees suffer from the disruption of their salaries for the fourth year in a row.
The Houthi militia had obligated districts leaders in Sana'a neighborhoods to distribute and collect paper parcels with the names of homeowners and neighborhood residents in the directorates of the capital, Sanaa, to collect cash donations, while it imposed exorbitant sums of money on merchants and workers in the commercial sector.
Political and banking sources questioned the reality of the source of the offered money, raising a number of suspicions about it, in light of the worsening living conditions of the residents of the capital, Sanaa, and the successive price doses in the prices of goods, foodstuffs, oil derivatives and transportation fees.
Activists on social media have not ruled out that the presented sums of money are part of the salaries of state employees in its public and mixed sectors, in addition to part of the royalties imposed on neighborhood residents in the form of donations to support the fronts, likening the process as if it was money laundering.
At the same time, the Houthi militia announced the seizure of billions of riyals in 3 cases, which it said were "pending before the Public Prosecution and related to entities that practice the activities of joint stock companies."
