A report issued by the Central Organization for Oversight and Accounting, among other cases submitted to the Presidential Leadership Council, on a number of corruption cases and serious financial violations, revealed financial corruption in the Embassy of Yemen in the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Yemeni Consulate in Jeddah. The report recommended that those responsible for these violations should be held accountable and the necessary legal measures should be taken.  

 The most prominent violations revealed in the report:  

1. Embassy of Yemen in Egypt:

   - Embassy employees seized $268,000 in consular income revenues by forging official documents related to the issuance of passports with the profession “student,” knowing in advance that this profession was not valid.  

2. Yemeni Consulate in Jeddah: 

   - An illegal increase in fees for issuing regular passports was imposed, amounting to 91 million and 236 thousand Saudi riyals, and these amounts were spent in exchange for the costs of illegal committees on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Immigration, Passports and Nationality Service.  

   - The Consulate did not commit to supplying the amounts collected from passport issuance fees and fines for the period from the beginning of 2018 until the end of 2022, as the total amounts not supplied amounted to 156 million and 656 thousand Saudi riyals, while what was supplied was limited to 12 million and 750 thousand riyals only.  

Report recommendations:  

The report recommended the necessity of immediately investigating these violations, holding those responsible accountable, and returning the embezzled amounts to the public treasury.

He also called for a review of the financial and administrative procedures in Yemeni embassies and consulates to ensure that such incidents are not repeated in the future.  

This report comes within the framework of efforts aimed at combating corruption and enhancing transparency in state institutions, especially in light of the difficult economic conditions that the country is going through. The Presidential Council has directed the decision and investigation of twenty cases pending before the prosecution to complete the investigation procedures in them, which include cases of corruption and takeover. On public money, land, oil, electricity, terrorist financing, and money laundering.

Source: Saba Government Agency