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The French National Financial Prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation into “misappropriation of funds” on suspicions that the family of the late Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, had investigated “illegal gains” in France, according to “Liberation”.
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Ali Abdullah Saleh’s family since 2005 has bought several apartments in western Paris, near the Champs-Elysées and Arc de Triomphe, for millions of euros, and his eldest son, Ahmed Saleh, is considered a member of the civil real estate company that was created for these purchases, according to the French newspaper, Liberation.
The newspaper pointed out that “thirty million euros have been transferred from Sanaa to an account opened by Saleh’s son in another name in a Paris bank.”
The newspaper added that the National Financial Prosecutor opened this investigation in 2019, after it received a request for criminal assistance from Switzerland, which had detected suspicious funds movements between Paris and Geneva, confirming that “investigations are still ongoing.”
Ahmed Ali Saleh was a former commander of the Yemeni Republican Guard, and was a politician and ambassador to Yemen in the United Arab Emirates, while the UN Security Council and the US Treasury Department froze his assets in 2015.
Ali Abdullah Saleh ruled Yemen for more than three decades, and then ceded power in February 2012 to his deputy, Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, after more than a year of popular protests under the “Arab Spring”, and was assassinated in December 2017.
Source: “France Press” + “Liberation” newspaper
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