Collecting revenues and ending the Brotherhood’s collection... the new governor of Al-Jawf’s roadmap
English - Monday 07 November 2022 الساعة 09:54 am
Aden, NewsYemen, special:
For years, the ruling Brotherhood authority in the border province of Al-Jawf with Saudi Arabia has been practicing organized looting of government revenues, amid refusal to disclose the huge funds being robbed and not supplying them to the state treasury.
Huge revenues are collected by the Brotherhood’s military forces loyal to former governor Amin al-Akimi under several names, including taxes and customs, in al-Jawf, and through military points spread along the international road leading to the border crossing with Saudi Arabia, north of the neighboring Saada governorate.
Brotherhood collection points practice imposing varying fees on each truck of goods or fuel that passes towards the al-Baqqa port or towards the liberated and non-liberated areas. Millions of riyals are collected monthly through these points without official bonds and under the name of "improvement points", even though most parts of the governorate are under the control of the Houthi militia.
The Brotherhood’s authority, led by Al-Akimi, who held the positions of Governor of Al-Jawf and the leader of its military axis before his recent ouster, has been continuously evading disclosure of the truth of the money collected as revenue for the state treasury, while the collection points of this authority are still today practicing the operations of taking and supplying funds to accounts Brotherhood leaders loyal to the former governor.
Previous reports revealed that Al-Akimi’s authority had carried out organized looting of the resources of Al-Jawf Governorate in huge amounts, including 100 million customs revenues on a daily basis, in addition to looting large sums estimated at more than 300 million Saudi riyals that were allocated by the coalition to support legitimacy in the governorate and liberate it from Houthi elements.
The new governor of Al-Jawf, Major General Hussein Al-Aji Al-Awadi, began moves to uncover corruption files in the looting of the governorate's customs revenues and taxes being collected. During his meeting with the head of the Customs Authority, Abdul Hakim Al-Qubati, he stressed that the coming period will witness a strengthening of the state's presence and commitment to the laws and regulations regulating work.
The Governor of Al-Jawf, Major General Hussein Al-Aji Al-Awadi, stressed the need to organize the work of the branch of the customs authority in the governorate, and to activate monitoring and evaluation to ensure that there is no duplication in the customs of goods and imports.
The Governor of Al-Jawf confirmed, according to what was published by the official news agency Saba, that the authority of the new governorate in Al-Jawf will supply customs collections to the Central Bank on a regular basis.
