The Yemeni government has asked the United Nations to declassify the UN's internal investigations into corruption cases uncovered by the Associated Press, and Yemeni Information Minister Muammar al-Iryani said that "UN internal investigation documents and information gathered by the Associated Press, from interviews with Relief on the performance of UN agencies, revealed the size of the Houthi breakthrough, political and financial corruption, cronyism and mismanagement of relief efforts in Yemen, a scandal affecting the reputation and balance of this organization ».
Al-Iryani, in a statement to the Yemeni news agency (Saba), that «the information contained in the investigation about the size of corruption and cronyism and fraud and recruitment violations and deposit millions of dollars of aid to the accounts of employees, suspicious contracts, the disappearance of tons of food, medicine and fuel and delivered to the Houthis, and allow the Houthi leaders to travel "In a UN car, it's dangerous."
Al-Iryani added: The Associated Press report reveals the fate of billions of dollars allocated to humanitarian relief programs in Yemen since 2015, and confirms what we have repeatedly talked about the penetration of Iranian-backed Houthi militias to UN agencies operating in militia-controlled areas, and being under pressure. And extortion.
The Yemeni minister called for declassifying these investigations, reviewing the performance of the United Nations and its agencies in Yemen over the past years, declaring the results transparently to the Yemeni people, and disclosing the fate of hundreds of millions of dollars of food supplies, medicines and aid stolen by the Houthi militias from the mouths of hungry and displaced people. The United Nations conducts a thorough investigation into the financial and administrative corruption of its agencies in Yemen.
The Associated Press revealed in a report entitled «Corruption loopholes harm the vital relief lifeline for Yemen», on the practices of corruption in the Office of the World Health Organization, and the use of Agency vehicles to transport Houthi fighters, and quoted individuals familiar with the internal UN investigations into corruption, and documents More than a dozen UN aid workers assigned to missions related to the ongoing humanitarian crisis have been accused of being associated with combatants on both sides of the conflict to enrich themselves from aid. Internal inspectors from the World Health Organization (WHO) are investigating the recruitment of unqualified persons with high-paying jobs, placing millions of dollars in employees' personal bank accounts, approving dozens of suspicious contracts that have not been properly treated, and investigating the disappearance of tons of aid, the report said. Medicines and fuel.
Another investigation by another UN organization, UNICEF, focused on allowing a Houthi leader to travel through UNICEF vehicles.