Mohamed al-Faki Suleiman, alternate chair of the Corruption Committee and member of the Sovereign Council of Sudan, announced that the committee has opened a new investigation with the ousted president, Omar al-Bashir, on charges of "squandering state funds for personal interests."
Sulaiman told reporters, "We opened new criminal communications in the face of the ousted president for wasting state funds for his personal interests, and the committee reached a special account in the name of the ousted president with the number (2616) at the National Bank of Omdurman, in which an amount of $ 20 million a month was provided, which is a special prose outside the framework Legal. "
The committee said it had confiscated a bank account belonging to the ousted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, and closed five exchange offices that were financing his system.
On the other hand, Muhammad al-Hassan al-Amin, a lawyer for al-Bashir, said he was unaware of the account details and the alleged bank transactions, and he warned against pursuing "political justice" against al-Bashir.
On April 11, 2019, the Sudanese army overthrew Bashir, who had ruled the country for three decades, four months after a popular protest movement against him, and arrested him while he was still in detention.
Since the overthrow of Bashir more than a year ago, Sudanese authorities have confiscated companies, real estate and property belonging to the former president and some of his family and aides.
In December, a Sudanese court sentenced al-Bashir, the first of two years, to corruption charges. He also faces trials and investigations in connection with the killing of protesters, and his role in the 1989 coup that brought him to power.