FILE PHOTO – Sudan’s former president Omar Hassan al-Bashir sits inside a cage through the listening to of the decision that convicted him of corruption fees in a courtroom in Khartoum, Sudan, December 14, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – A Sudanese anti-corruption committee stated on Tuesday it had confiscated a checking account belonging to ousted President Omar al-Bashir and closed 5 overseas change bureaus used to fund his regime.
The Empowerment Removing Committee has been charged by the lawyer normal with dismantling the system constructed by Bashir after his ouster in April final yr.
It oversees investigations into crimes involving public funds and corruption by the previous president and members of his prolonged household and previous regime.
The committee seized a checking account of Bashir by way of which each month hundreds of thousands of U.S. {dollars} have been channelled, it informed a information convention. It additionally fired dozens of civil servants belonging to the previous regime.
Mohamed al-Hassan al-Amin, a lawyer for Bashir, stated he was unaware of particulars of the alleged checking account and transactions. He warned in opposition to a “political justice” in opposition to Bashir.
A Sudanese courtroom handed Bashir a primary, two-year sentence in December on corruption fees. He additionally faces trials and investigations over the killing of protesters and his function within the 1989 coup that introduced him to energy.
Reporting by Khaled Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir; Writing by Ulf Laessing; Enhancing by Tom Brown