Seizing huge amounts of money smuggled out of Sana’a related to former Arab presidents

AYemeni newspaper revealed on  Saturday, that the Crater Police in Aden Governorate seized two persons possessing an amount of 200,000 Kuwaiti Dinars, most likely to be smuggled from Sana’a and linked to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, according to preliminary investigations conducted by the police with the seized person.

The Al-Ayyam newspaper quoted a security source as saying that a young man from Aden presented to the Crater police requesting a permit to pass sums of Kuwaiti dinar money from Aden to al-Mahra, and claimed that his son-in-law is the one who owns these amounts and wants to pass them on to al-Mahra with permission from the police so that they are not intercepted at checkpoints

The source clarified, that the young man appeared to be confused, prompting the policemen to request proof of his kinship with the owner of the money, which made the young man impotent, to admit that he had a relationship with a person from the northern governorates who was running a hotel for the owner of a money exchange shop in Aden.

The source said that the police raided the hotel and arrested the guest in possession of 200 thousand Kuwaiti dinars, and they were kept in custody with the security services, indicating that the accused admitted that the amount is part of the 7 billion dinars that former President Ali Abdullah Saleh received from Saddam Hussein during the Second Gulf War in the year is 1990, according to the newspaper.