The Yemeni Central Bank directed, on Tuesday, the "seizure and freezing of accounts of 135 individuals and entities linked to the Houthis and listed on terrorist lists."
The state-owned Saba News Agency reported that the Yemeni Central Bank in Aden "directed on Tuesday all banks, exchange companies, and establishments operating in the country to seize and freeze all bank accounts, funds, and assets belonging to 135 individuals, entities, and a sea vessel."
It added that the decision came "based on Public Prosecutor's Decision No. 17 of 2026, dated October 19, 2026, regarding their listing on terrorist lists and the seizure and freezing of their funds, due to their links to the Houthi terrorist militia."
According to the agency, the directives also stipulated "banning financial and commercial dealings with them, refraining from opening any new bank accounts for them, whether directly or indirectly, and immediate monitoring of balances, bank accounts, funds, and assets."
It continued: "Any financial transfers, outgoing or incoming, concerning the persons named in the Public Prosecutor's decision, and consolidating all data related to them and submitting them directly to the Financial Intelligence Unit and the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Administration."
The list included in the Public Prosecutor's decision, according to the agency, "included names of political, civil, military, and security leaders belonging to the Houthi terrorist militia, in addition to merchants, businessmen, a company, and 5 oil smuggling tankers linked to the militias," without mentioning specific names.
On October 11, the internationally recognized Yemeni government announced its approval of a draft law classifying the Houthi group as a "terrorist organization" and criminalizing its activities and financing.
This comes amid a military escalation that began in July 2026, considered the widest since the relative calm Yemen witnessed following a truce that began in April 2022.
Yemen has been witnessing a war since the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa and several governorates in September 2014, before the intervention of an Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia in March 2015, in support of the internationally recognized Yemeni government.
Source: Anadolu Agency
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