The Houthis are looting oil from UN organizations' stores to sell alternative fuel to diesel

English - Thursday 17 October 2019 الساعة 11:50 am

Human rights sources in the capital Sana'a revealed that the leaders of the Houthi militia, in coordination with corrupt officials in UN organizations, sold large quantities of oil distributed by international organizations in the food baskets of poor families, to be used as alternative fuel for diesel.

The sources said, in a statement to Newsyemen , that this crime has expanded in the last two weeks after the intensification of the suffocating crisis of oil derivatives in areas controlled by the coup militia, and the lack of derivatives from the stations and high price to reach the price of 20 liters of diesel or oil on the black market to more than  25 thousand riyals.

It was pointed out that the Houthi leaders began to sell oil to those looking for diesel fuel from the quantities that had been looted previously from the stores of UN organizations in various ways, either under the pretext of supporting its war effort or to spend it in food baskets for fake names or the families of its fighters and killers, pointing out that in the absence of diesel from the market  Demand has risen, especially from the owners of water pumps and mills and to run out of the quantity held by the Houthis resorted to brokerage with corrupt in the international organizations to sell other quantities of oil in the stores of the organizations to be used as fuel alternative to diesel or mixed with diesel.