Fares Mohammed Manaa ( ar, فارس محمد مناع; born February 8, 1965)

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i arms-dealer, businessman,Sa'ada tribal leaders protest "weapons dealer" imprisonment
, February 20, 2010 rebel commander and politician.Houthis Control Sa'ada, Help Appoint Governor
29 March 2011 He is said to be Yemen's most famous arms-dealer. Manaa was born on February 8, 1965, in the northern city of

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. He was an ally of Yemeni President

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and member of his ruling GPC party and served as head of his presidential committee and as head of a local council tasked with mediating a peace-deal between the Yemeni government and

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during the

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. His brother was the governor of

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at the time. His name was put on a

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and is accused of with

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. This led to his assets being frozen by the

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. He was also accused of receiving millions in funds from the then

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n ruler

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, spying for Libya and supplying arms to the Houthis.Yemeni weapons dealer released
21-06-2010 Manaa denied these charges claiming that arms had been stolen by Houthis from an arms deposit he owned. In October 2009

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br>Driver killed in Sanaa hit on police convoy
May 11, 2010 was put at the top of a blacklist of Yemeni arms-dealers, after which he was put under surveillance. In late January 2010, Manaa was arrested by Yemeni authorities leading to protests in Sa'dah by tribal chiefs and the resignation of his brother, Hassan Manaa, as governor. In May, a mini-bus driver was killed and a policeman and a civilian woman were injured as a group of Manaa's men attacked the car in which he was being transported to a penal court. This resulted in his trial being delayed by 25 days. He was eventually released on June 4, after which his relations with President Saleh soured. On March 19, Houthis attacked the city of Sa'dah, starting a battle with pro-government al-Abdin tribesmen, led by Yemeni lawmaker Sheikh Othman Majali.Houthi Group Appoints Arms Dealer as Governor of Sa'ada province
/ref> During the battle, rebels joined forces with Fares Manaa and after their victory, set up a local committee, composed of rebels, residents and defected military commanders, which appointed him as the new governor of Sa'dah on 26 March, after the pro-Saleh governor Taha Hajer fled to the capital

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. He led the Houthis independent administration in Saada governorate until December 2014.

br>Final report of the Panel of Experts on Yemen established pursuant to Security Council resolution 2140 (2014)
paragraph 75

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