The former head of the Sudanese Islamic Fiqh Academy, Essam Ahmed al-Bashir, denied the charge of money laundering, which was attributed to him by local Sudanese media and published by social media.
Issam al-Bashir said in a video released today that Al Jazeera Net obtained a copy of it that the financial procedure mentioned in the indictment took place a year ago according to bank methods and official documents and for known purposes as the documents show. He added that he was a 20-year expatriate and worked in international universities and regional organizations and extended God's livelihood.
The Islamic preacher is known to have commissioned a legal team to refute these charges and prosecute those behind him, saying what happened an attempt to assassinate his character.
It was reported yesterday that the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Prosecution issued an arrest warrant for Essam Al-Bashir on charges of money laundering, withholding his assets in commercial banks and banning him from traveling, on suspicion of transferring money from his account in a local bank to his account in a Turkish bank amounted to 680 thousand euros. .
A source told "Tassity News" that the former Supreme Committee against Corruption had suspected money transfers from the account of Issam al-Bashir abroad, and referred the matter to the prosecutor of anti-money laundering and financing of terrorism Ahmed Suleiman al-Awad.
The source added that the prosecution investigated the suspicion and concluded that the man had conducted a bank transaction from his personal account in a famous bank in Khartoum to a bank in Turkey, and concluded that the amount transferred amounted to 680 thousand euros, which necessitated checking the source of funds due to the profession of the accused. The prosecution filed a complaint against him in accordance with article (35) of the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Law.