“The General Administration of Initiatives” and “Charitable Institutions” are new addresses for Houthi levies
English - Tuesday 26 April 2022 الساعة 10:59 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen, private:
The Houthi militia, Iran's arm in Yemen, has intensified its violations and taxes by force of arms against the private sector in Sana'a and its areas of control.
Informed sources told NewsYemen that supervisors and militia members within the so-called Security and Intelligence Service have recently escalated raids and incursions into private commercial sector centers, institutions and companies in Sana'a and other areas with the aim of imposing illegal financial levies.
According to the sources, the Houthi militia established what it called the General Department for Community Initiatives in the Capital Municipality’s structure, in violation of the law. Including “support for orphans, poor families, displaced people, families of martyrs, wounded and prisoners.”
The sources indicated that the militia imposes exorbitant sums of money on businessmen, big traders and importers from abroad, especially in the month of Ramadan, for many of its affiliated charitable institutions and societies, most notably to its leaders, including the “Free Yemen” institutions for the care and rehabilitation of the families of the prisoners and the missing and “The Social Good for Development” and “Bunyan Developmental”, “The Great Friendly Society of Mrs. Khadija, peace be upon her”, “Yemen Thabat”, “Yemen Future Society”, “The Prisoners” Foundation, “Fatima Al-Zahraa” and “The Pioneer Houria Abbas Al-Moayad Foundation for Development” and others.
It pointed out that the militia is distributing some aid after looting those huge funds through these associations and institutions affiliated with them after media promotion of Ramadan breakfast kitchen projects and food baskets that they distribute exclusively to leaders and loyal elements and the families of their dead, while the needy and poor families are deprived of aid in starvation. Yemenis and their humiliation, as well as the exploitation of this food aid to mobilize new fighters in its ranks and plunge them into its absurd battles.
According to the sources, the militia forces many private companies and commercial groups to provide hundreds of millions of riyals on an ongoing basis to its "Martyrs Foundation", which sponsors the children, families and families of its dead and its branches in the districts and governorates under its control.
According to the sources, the militia is imposing huge amounts of money on businessmen and merchants through its so-called “General Authority for Zakat” under the name of Zakat revenues, which it has turned into a dynastic investment project that inflates the group’s leaders’ throats, as this authority and its branches prevent any assistance from merchants and benefactors to the population The poor and needy families in the militia-controlled areas, provided that they are handed over to them.
The organized and systematic looting of the Houthis coincides with its imposition of other financial royalties under names including taxes, duties, customs, the war effort and Eid convoys.
Most of the citizens in Sanaa and areas under Houthi control suffer from difficult living and humanitarian conditions due to lack of income, looting of their monthly salaries, and cutting social security salaries by Houthi militias for more than seven years.
