Houthi militia loots a building belonging to the military engineering and allocates it to a university affiliated with its leaders
English - Thursday 27 October 2022 الساعة 05:05 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen, private:
In its latest procedures related to the confiscation and looting of state buildings and public property, the Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen, has confiscated a number of buildings belonging to the Ministry of Defense and turned them into their own institutions.
Military sources in Sanaa told NewsYemen that the Houthi militia robbed three of the Ministry of Defense buildings, including a military engineering building, and turned them into buildings for private educational institutions, which are investments owned by some of the militia's senior leaders.
According to the sources, a number of militia leaders confiscated a building belonging to the military engineering (one of the institutions affiliated to the Ministry of Defense) and allocated it to be the headquarters of what it called the University of Arab Academics for Science and Technology, which was established by Ministerial Resolution No. (18) for the year 2020 AD on 02/03/2020 AD by the Ministry Education under the control of militias, as the university includes two main colleges: the College of Engineering and Information Technology and the College of Technical Engineering, headed by one of the militia leaders, Dr. Abdul Rahman Al Dhanbi.
The sources indicate that the university is keen to revive all sectarian events and events related to the Houthi militia, in the presence of the militia leaders in the Ministry of Education, most notably Dr. Ali Sharaf al-Din, Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the government affiliated with the militias, who is the actual minister, in addition to some religious leaders affiliated with the Houthis. Permanent lectures on such occasions to university students.
The University of Arab Academics for Science and Technology is one of several educational investment projects established by the militias since their coup against power and their control of state institutions on September 21, 2014. Most of these projects have been allocated headquarters from the government buildings that they seized, such as the University of the Holy Qur’an, the University of September 21... and others.
And educational sources in the Ministry of Higher Education, which is controlled by the Houthi militia, confirm that. The investments in the field of universities and private schools established by the Houthis are of two dimensions: the first is related to the militias’ attempt to invest and exploit these institutions to spread their culture and sectarian, racist and ideological ideas, and the second is financially related to money laundering operations carried out through these projects, where the militias found themselves besieged and unable to Investing the money you loot from the revenues, levies and royalties you collect, whether legal or illegal abroad. Therefore, it resorted to establishing these projects to use them as fronts to carry out money laundering operations and circumvent the siege and sanctions imposed on its leaders or on some of the institutions that use it to smuggle money abroad.
Government sources in Sana'a had earlier revealed to NewsYemen the establishment of the Houthi militia. The Iranian arm in Yemen, by seizing a number of government buildings and facilities belonging to some service ministries, and transforming them into private buildings that it uses for its sectarian agenda or to serve its investment projects.
