YEMEN Press Agency

Ministry of Oil and Minerals: Over 19 Trillion Yemeni Riyals Stolen by US-Saudi mercenaries

SANAA, April 03 (YPA) – Minister of Oil and Minerals, Ahmed Dars, revealed on Friday, that the value of the stolen oil and gas revenues from by Saudi-led aggression during 6 years amounted to more than 19 trillion Yemeni riyals.

He added that “the looted revenues include the refined oil revenues at Marib refinery estimated at 1.3 trillion riyals and 1.3 trillion riyals for domestic gas revenues.

The Minister confirmed that 2.7 trillion Yemeni riyals is the total Yemen’s losses as a result of disrupting the production of liquefied gas and converting the Balhaf facility into a military barracks by the occupation forces.

He pointed out that the aggression forces focused on robbing the public revenues, with the aim of strangling the Yemeni people, stressing that oil and gas revenues are the right of all the Yemeni people, and they will not be silent about the continuous looting.

For his part, the spokesman for the domestic gas company, Ali Maasar, told Al Masirah that “domestic gas revenues go entirely to the mercenaries’ account in Marib since the beginning of the aggression and siege on Yemen, ”adding that“ the mercenaries did not stop at the looting of domestic gas revenues. Rather, their prices were raised in the recent period, doubling the suffering of the Yemeni people. ”

E.M