Three tons of drug shipment seized at port of Aden

ADEN, Oct. 27 (YPA) – Navigation sources at the port of Aden on Tuesday revealed new details about a huge shipment of drugs that arrived in the port at an earlier time and was sized by the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s Militias .

This was reported by Yemen News Portal, based on navigation sources.

The sources said that the shipment was part of a sugar shipment inside several containers provided on board a ship that departed from the Saudi port of Jeddah.

It is owned by military leaders of the Saudi-UAE alliance.

Aden’s security announced on late Monday that a shipment of up to 3 tones of drugs had been seized after it left the container port of Aden.

In the same context, pro-UAE leader Shalala Shaye’a threatened on Tuesday to expose the Saudi ambassador to Yemen Mohammed al-Jaber after seized a shipment of drugs in the port of Aden belonging to him in an attempt to blackmail in response to the ambassador’s attempts to change Shaye’a.

Sources in the UAE-backed STC said that Shaye directed his forces to strengthen their measures in the container port after the threat of Saudi forces to storm it.

He also directed his force to deal with the Saudis and called  the prosecution to investigate the seized shipment, according to the sources.

The sources pointed out that he received a notification from the UAE forces about the route of the ship that set off from the port of Jeddah and was emptied in the port of Aden.

This prompted him to direct the emergency forces to surround the port and seize the cargo, which was about to leave after completing its procedures.

The escalation came amid Saudi pressure to change Shaye’a, despite his refusal, which the sources considered  a trump card to give him a senior position in the government to be formed.

E.M