Yamanat – Sanaa
The Public Funds Appeals Prosecution in the capital, Sana’a, brought dozens of pesticide and fertilizer dealers to trial on charges of committing crimes of polluting the environment and exposing people’s lives to risks.
According to what was reported by the Ansar Allah newspaper Al-Masirah website, the prosecution issued an indictment on its website that included 40 pesticide and poison dealers, based on the pesticide law.
The prosecution demanded the closure of the shops and institutions belonging to the defendants, and the withdrawal of their licenses to practice the profession.
According to the website, among the forty defendants were names referred to as fugitives from justice.
The indictment stated that the defendants smuggled banned pesticides and brought them into the territory of the Republic of Yemen, knowing that these pesticides were prohibited.
According to the indictment, the defendants brought harmful and harmless pesticides outside the customs gate, thus committing customs evasion crimes, which may require doubling the penalty, according to the applicable laws.
The indictment stated that the defendants committed several violations that amount to crimes, such as polluting the environment and intentionally exposing people’s lives and safety to risks, including the risk of death, due to the significant environmental damage caused by pesticides and their waste.
The indictment, supported by documents, stated that pesticides and prohibited and forbidden goods were seized in the stores and shops of the forty defendants, and they were selling them illegally, which is considered intentional and premeditated to threaten people’s lives and pollute the environment.
Among the defendants mentioned in the prosecution’s indictment, according to Al Masirah website, are the following:
– Bin Daghsan Foundation, with its legal personality and the personality of its owner.
– Saleh Ajlan & Brothers Company, with its legal personality and the personalities of the company’s owners.
– Haitham Qaish, owner of Abu Haitham stores, and Muhammad Hussein Qaish
– Abu Farea Stores, whose owner is Saleh Muhammad Jarallah
– Naguib El Materi’s stores, and one of his workers
– Ibn Al-Yemen Stores, its owner is Amer Yahya Al-Siyaghi, and one of his workers
– Ibn Hader Stores, its owner, Khaled Al-Mifai, and one of his sons
– Stores (Al-Riyashi, Dahmash, Al-Mahras, Al-Dhafiri, Haidar, Al-Akhawayn, Al-Qahum, Al-Jaber, and Arkan) with the identity of their owners and some of their workers.
This case was pending before the Public Funds and Anti-Corruption Prosecution in the Capital Secretariat, and some of the accused were arrested, and some were released on bail.
During the past few days, activists raised on social media platforms the issue of toxic pesticides that are prohibited from entering the country, and a number of documents were circulated for the entry of these materials into the country, including the intervention of a security force in forcefully removing a locomotive carrying the pesticide “methyl bromide” from the courtyards of the customs control center in Sana’a. Belonging to the merchant Daghsan.