[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Activists loyal to Saudi-led coalition have disclosed information on the amount of money Soddy Arabia...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
is paying to 1,485 individuals from Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i crude oil revenues through the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia.
According to the activists, 1,485 individuals receive a total of $5,356,000 monthly from the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia, derived from Yemeni crude oil revenues.
Shocking figures indicate that 220 provincial agents each receive $4,500 per month, totaling $990,000.
Additionally, 120 members of the "House of Representatives" in Aden each receive $5,500 monthly, amounting to $660,000.
The activists also reported that 600 media personnel and activists each get $2,500 monthly, totaling $1.5 million, while 300 advisors to ministers and commissioners receive $4,000 each, totaling $1.2 million per month.
They also revealed that 52 ambassadors receive $7,000 each monthly, totaling $364,000, while 52 consuls get $4,500 each, totaling $234,000 per month.
Furthermore, 111 individuals affiliated with the ministers in the pro-coalition puppet government each receive $3,000 monthly, totaling $333,000. Meanwhile,
...back at the game, the Babe was wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally it hit him...
30 employees of the so-called "Prime Minister’s Office" receive $2,500 each, totaling $75,000.
In July 2023, Ahmed Hajer, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance for Planning in the Sana’a government, confirmed that Saudi Arabia has been holding more than $13 billion from the Yemeni crude oil revenues at the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia since 2016.
Meanwhile,
...back at the game, the Babe was wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally it hit him...
the International Center for Journalists published a report in 2022 titled "Figures of Yemeni Crude Oil Exports," which revealed that from 2016 until the end of 2021, exports amounted to approximately 189,170,730 barrels, generating a total revenue of $13,025,761,831.
Thus, over 13 billion US dollars worth of Yemeni revenue is directly being withheld or siphoned off from the treasury, at a time when millions of Yemenis are suffering from food insecurity and precarious living conditions.