A new report for the "tracker of organized crime and money laundering in Yemen": Iran supervises a Houthi network to circumvent US sanctions through fake companies and secret economic alliances

Sana'a - May 28, 2025

A platform tracling organized crime and money laundering of the P.T.O.CYEMEN Center revealed in a new report today issued by exclusive information and documents confirming the supervision of the Iranian ambassador in Sana'a, Ali Rezaei, on an integrated mechanism designed by Tehran specifically to help the Houthi group to circumvent US sanctions, in coordination with high -ranking figures from the Iranian and Houthi sides.

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According to the documents, the Iranian mechanism is supervised by Iranian Minister of Trade Abbas Ali Ayadi, with the participation of a specialized technical team from his ministry, in addition to a Yemeni team led by the Undersecretary of the Houthi Security and Intelligence Service for the economic sector, and the Deputy Minister of Trade, Industry and Investment of the Houthi government, Muhammad Qatar, alongside a person named Ayman Al -Khqari.

documents issued by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Investment in Sana'a, which were directed to the leadership of the group, indicate a joint understanding between the Iranian and Houthi parties about a strategy aimed at transferring Iran's experiences and experiences in circumventing economic sanctions, which included prominent provisions, including:

Create commercial companies in allied countries for Tehran.

Using Yemeni companies of a long commercial age in import and export. Exploiting parked companies or companies owned by political or expatriate opponents established before 2017 and their owners left the country, allowing them to be used without raising suspicions.

This proposition supports what was published by the American magazine "Foreign Policy", stressing that the Houthis intensified their financial activity by establishing fake companies linked to Iraqi companies, to take advantage of the Iraqi financial system subject to direct Iranian influence.

In other documents, the platform said it is keeping it.

It includes a third document signed by the Houthi leader Abdul Wahid Abu Ras, Deputy Foreign Minister and responsible for the external file, addressing the Iranian ambassador, in which he emphasizes the need to use new international parties to coordinate business with Iran, due to the exposure of the role of the well -known Iranian mediator Saeed Al -Jamal, who is under strict control of American intelligence, especially in East Asia and China, according to the document.

The report warns that the Houthi group is adopting advanced methods of money laundering and financial camouflage, in close coordination with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which requires urgent international move to enhance monitoring mechanisms, and to stop the flow of resources that the group exploits to finance its military and political activities.