Yemeni opposition source disclosed “the most dangerous operation of waste smuggling to Yemen” across a network run by a smuggling mafia joint between Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, according to the source’s description.

Sources at the opposition Yemeni Islah Party quoted judicial sources as saying that the court of irregularities investigates on the smuggling waste operation to Yemen, as it is believed that some of those materials had been wasted in Yemen, the remaining quantities are still kept in containers at the port of Hodeidah province western Yemen.

The sources revealed that this smuggling gang uses Egypt as a springboard through agents and front companies in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Those groups work in shipping and exporting hazardous waste, including raw materials to Yemen through the Port of Hodeidah, where they store their waste in the port’s warehouses for several months. And then they promote for confiscating these materials within the province of Hodeidah, in a pretext that they were destroyed inside the port.

The source proclaimed that the number of containers arrived in Hodeidah port during 2009 reached 51 containers, with expectations that they were loaded with “raw molasses” materials, according to claims by their owners without awareness of the real components.

It noted that an Egyptian export company is exporting these wastes from Egypt into Yemen via faked institutions, do not exist in Yemen.

The same sources warned of the nature of the wasted materials; and what they contain of other unknown hazardous materials.

However, they were wondered about the reasons that those companies pay high costs for materials sought in the end for burial within the Yemeni territories.