SNACC Yemen sends 10 corruption cases to court

The Supreme National Authority for Combating Corruption (SNACC) will be referring ten cases of corruption to the justice system for prosecution, announced Mohammed Ahmed Sanhob, manager of the Judicial Follow-up department at SNACC.

Sanhob disclosed that the authority has received many reports and complaints, some of them criminal cases regarding corruption and some of them unrelated personal cases, which Sanhob speculated were submitted by people unfamiliar with legal matters.

Six of the cases have not yet been referred to the courts, including an embezzlement case and a fraud case, in which the defendants were accused by the state, explained Sanhob.  The other four cases, he said, will be submitted to the courts by the prosecution.  They include two cases from the Expatriates Ministry, one from the Ministry of Electricity, and the fourth case is related to the restoration project for the Cairo Castle in Taiz.

In a related issue, the Public Funds Court, presided over by Judge Abdul Hafiz al-Mujtaba, will soon be holding the first session of a trial involving 20 suspects from the Electricity Corporation accused of embezzling 600 million YR.

The prosecution has accused all twenty suspects of committing official fraud by falsifying diesel delivery receipts to show non-existent diesel deliveries to the Hizaiz power station.  Fortunately, the exaggerated quantities of diesel conflicted with the records at the Central Organization for Control and Accounting (COCA). The suspects stand accused of using the diesel for their own benefit.

The prosecution has specifically accused one of the suspects of stealing 581 million YR (the amount paid for the falsified receipts) from the Electricity Corporation.  The same suspect is also charged with stealing an additional 955,789 liters of diesel fuel valued at almost 179 million YR.  The other suspects are being tried for aiding and abetting the primary culprit.

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