Businessman Kidnapped [Archives:2001/06/Local News]

Mr. Ali Mohammed Noman al-Qubati, a well known businessman, was snatched in Hodeidah last Monday 29.1.2001, by a group of armed men in a jeep car. So far his destiny is unknown.
Eyewitnesses told YT that the kidnappers snatched Mr. Ali while he was leaving the military prosecution building in Hodeidah. Mr. Ali had won a case in the Preliminary Commercial Court in Hodeidah against the Yemeni Economic Corporation to take possession of 8,000 sacks of rice in the stores of the corporation. One day before the kidnapping incident, Mr. Ali went with Judge Abdullah Aqlan, chairman of the executive department of the court who was assigned by the court judge to enforce the verdict, to the corporation to carry out the courts decision. However, when Mr. Ali was about to leave the corporation, officials gave orders to arrest him.
The sons of the kidnapped man urged the president to take necessary measures to ensure their fathers safety and release. The Military Guards leader in Hodeidah, colonel Saleh al-Matari, had informed the deputy governor that officials of the corporation had kidnapped the businessman, maintaining that this was not sanctioned by any authority.

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