A frantic Houthi campaign targeting commercial companies and state factories
English - Saturday 29 October 2022 الساعة 10:48 am
Sana'a, NewsYemen, private:
The terrorist Houthi militia, Iran's arm in Yemen, has escalated its attacks against commercial companies during the past hours, in addition to its continued liquidation of state-owned factories in its areas of control.
Where the Hayel Saeed Anam Group, the largest trading house in Yemen, announced the suspension of work in its sugar refinery factory in the city of Hodeidah due to attacks committed by the Houthi militia.
The group revealed, in a letter it sent to the Houthi government's interior minister, that one of the group's leaders had kidnapped the general manager of the group's Yemeni Sugar Refining Company in the city of Hodeidah and intercepted the company's trucks.
The group said that the Houthi leader called "Abu Mishaal", who was appointed by the group as assistant director of security for Hodeidah Governorate, suspended the company's activity and obstructed its work by seizing transport vehicles and buses for transporting employees of the company at the Salif Junction point.
In conjunction with this incident, local sources reported that the Houthi militia had stormed the Belqis Industrial Development Company and the Belqis Poultry Company in the Taiziyah District, Taiz Governorate, and looted documents, property and machinery from within its headquarters.
The private sector in Houthi-controlled areas is subjected to continuous attacks despite the levies and royalties it pays to the group, which is what specialists believe that the group seeks, through this policy, to control this sector with companies affiliated with its leaders.
In another context, sources and activists revealed a campaign of looting and liquidation against the government's Asment Al-Barh factory, west of Taiz, by the Houthi leader, Yahya Muhammad Hamid Al-Din, who was recently appointed head of the General Organization for Cement Industry and Marketing.
Where the Houthi leader directed the factory management to take out many of the factory’s equipment, and hand it over to Houthi military leaders, despite the objection of the workers and the factory’s guard to abandoning the factory’s property, which is subject to continuous looting.
According to the sources, since 2017, the factory has been subjected to a continuous looting process that affected equipment, mechanisms and devices, valued at hundreds of millions. They were taken out of the factory under various pretexts.
