France to try sons of Yemen ex-president Saleh on fraud charges

A French court is to try two sons of Yemen’s late ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh next year over allegedly embezzling public funds that bought the clan flats in Paris, prosecutors said Monday.His eldest son, Ahmed Ali Saleh, and another son called Khaled Saleh are to stand trial in September 2026, the Paris financial prosecutor’s office said.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Anti-government protests, including over poverty and corruption, led to Ali Abdullah Saleh stepping down from power in 2012 following three decades of rule.He then allied with Houthi rebels he had once fought in the north of the country, but after they seized the capital Sanaa in 2014, they killed the former president in 2017.French prosecutors in charge of financial crime in 2019 opened a probe into suspicious fund transfers between Geneva and Paris, following a tipoff from Swiss authorities.It found that a real estate company involving Ahmed Ali Saleh was used to