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Two sons of former Yemeni president face French justice
2025-12-15 16:34:52 / BOTA
The two heirs of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh will appear before a court in Paris in September 2026 for money laundering derived from the misuse of public funds and corruption in an organized group, the National Financial Prosecutor's Office told AFP on Monday, confirming information published by Le Parisien.
The brothers, Ahmed Ali and Khaled Saleh, are suspected of using embezzled public funds to buy luxury properties in Paris. The National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) opened an investigation in 2019 after being notified by Switzerland, which had noticed suspicious movements of funds between Paris and Geneva.
The suspicions of “illegally acquired wealth” relate to several apartments purchased for several million euros since 2005 in Paris, one on Rue Tilsitt and another on Rue Galilée, two prestigious addresses near the Champs-Élysées and the Arc de Triomphe. A real estate civil society is alleged to have been created for these purchases, which included Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh, the eldest son of the former president. Thirty million euros are alleged to have been transferred from Sana’a to an account in Paris opened under another name by Ahmed Saleh.
"Everything is completely transparent, there is no financial scheme with offshore companies or shell companies," the Saleh brothers' lawyers, Clara Gérard-Rodriguez and Pierre-Olivier Sur, told AFP. According to them, the investigation is based only on "a UN report that lists the family's assets without specifying their origin." "But the fact that this regime is said to have been corrupt does not prove at all that the money from corruption was used by his sons to buy properties in France," stressed Clara Gérard-Rodriguez.
Ahmed Ali Saleh, the former head of the Republican Guard, an elite force created by his father, who was born in 1972, was also Yemen's ambassador to the United Arab Emirates. His assets, like those of his father, were frozen in 2015 by the UN Security Council and the US Treasury. Ali Abdullah Saleh, in power from 1978 to 2012, was forced to step down after more than a year of popular protests as part of the Arab Spring. He was killed in December 2017 by Houthi rebels, who have been fighting against the government, which is backed by a Saudi-led coalition, since 2015.
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