Houthi economic committees whose mission is to create new financial resources
English - Wednesday 05 February 2020 الساعة 04:58 pm
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Over the past years, the Houthi militia militia has implemented a package of measures to enhance its resources, relying on economic committees whose mission is to provide ideas, proposals and studies to create new financial resources available and directly implementable.
A source in the capital, Sanaa, said that the Houthi militia had assigned economic committees over the past years to develop studies and proposals to find financial resources to replace oil and gas revenues, grants and external loans, to be applicable, which was implemented during the past years.
The source, who requested not to be named, added that the office of the militia leader, Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, under the supervision of Mahdi Al-Mashat, is one of the committees formed in the ministries, institutions, bodies and voluntary interests, from employees working in the same authorities, and they presented studies and proposals, which were reviewed and approved by the militia leader personally and applied in its entirety.
He added that the economic committees aim to empower the Houthi militia from the largest public resources, stressing that the resources of the Houthi militia exceeded two trillion riyals during the past year 2019, most of which were not recorded in the records of the Ministry of Finance and National Accounts, and went into special accounts.
The source, who holds a high position in the Ministry of Finance subject to the Houthis, explained that the ideas and proposals presented by the economic committees and implemented were to "open old tax files for past years for merchants, amend the tax and zakat laws, raise taxes on telecommunications services, collect real estate tax for past years, and impose taxes on organizations. "
He added that the committees suggested linking the voluntary funds directly to the Political Council, creating land customs points at the entrances to the capital, Sana'a, and the customs of cars that were customs in the legal areas, and confiscating the funds of political and social figures that left Sana'a.
He pointed out that among the proposals of the implemented economic committees, taking rates on buying and selling private lands, ratios of the profits of the banking sector, taking proportions from fees for internal transfers, and preparing events to mobilize monthly donations under several names, including the name of the war effort, and completely freeze spending on public services and handing them over to merchants in return for ratios belonging to the militia, leasing and investing state assets, real estate, and endowment properties.
In addition to the new resources obtained by the Houthis by force of arms, they still maintain direct control of most of the national economy in their regions, surplus profits from public institutions, blackmail merchants, confiscate property, land, real estate, companies, and liquid funds, and trade in petroleum derivatives and household gas in the black market, and sell drugs , and contraband and counterfeit medicines, and the receive massive funds from Doha and Tehran.
