On Sunday, the Sudanese Public Prosecutor demanded that the director of the Security and Intelligence Service during the rule of ousted President Omar al-Bashir, Salah Abdullah, known as Salah Gosh, surrender himself to the judiciary after suits were brought against him on charges of illicit wealth.
Salah Qosh, in his real name, Salah Abdullah Muhammad Saleh, was the head of the Intelligence and Security Service and the position of the President’s Adviser until August 2009. In 2012, he was sentenced to prison after being convicted of plotting a coup, but was subsequently released under a presidential pardon. In February 2018, Al-Bashir appointed him Director of Intelligence again, and he remained in his post until Al-Bashir was dismissed on April 11, 2019.
The Public Prosecution issued a statement stating that Gosh, the accused in a lawsuit related to "the unlawful and suspected wealth of the year 1989", was not found. Either he ran away or hid himself to prevent the arrest warrant from being executed. ”
And it called on "the accused Salah Abdullah Qosh" to surrender "to the nearest police station in a period not exceeding a week." She also asked the people to help arrest him.
Last week, Attorney General Taj El-Serr El-Ink announced the start of procedures via Interpol to return Gosh, who is outside the country, according to him, to the country for trial, indicating that he faces four criminal cases being investigated.
On August 15, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that Washington decided to deny former Sudanese intelligence and security chief Salah Gosh access to US territory because of his "gross human rights violations".
The State Department said, "It has credible information that Salah Qosh was involved in torture during his administration of the Sudanese Intelligence and Security Service."
Reports in May 2019 stated that Gosh was in house arrest, but had in fact disappeared from view since then.