Brigadier Taher Abu Haga, media advisor to the President of the Sovereign Council in Sudan, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, said that the detention of some leaders of the frozen empowerment committee was carried out under an arrest warrant issued by the judicial authorities, according to reports.

Abu Haja stressed - in press statements today, Thursday - that these are normal legal procedures that cannot be called arrest, but rather an arrest warrant in accordance with the criminal law.

He added that, according to the Code of Criminal Procedure, defendants may not be released on ordinary bail, but only after returning what they took from public money.

According to the media advisor, the communication is now in the investigation stage, and the accused is innocent until proven guilty, calling on everyone to respect the judicial and judicial institutions to play their role in achieving justice.

Yesterday, Wednesday, the Sudanese authorities detained two members of the committee to dismantle the frozen regime of ousted President Omar al-Bashir, following a report of breach of trust opened against them by the Sudanese Ministry of Finance, and the security forces also arrested a former minister.

The two detained members are Wajdi Saleh, who is also the spokesman for the Forces of Freedom and Change, the Central Council, and the Secretary-General of the frozen dismantling committee, Al-Tayeb Othman Yousef.

Saleh said in a tweet to him on Twitter that he and a member of the committee, Youssef, had been detained by the police, and investigation procedures had not started with them.

The leader of the Forces for Freedom and Change, Adel Khalafallah, described to Al-Jazeera these measures against the two members of the committee to dismantle the former regime as political, illegal and immoral, and that the aim was only to arrest the two members and prolong their detention, as he put it.

Khalafallah said that the measures came as a reaction to the two members' response to accusations he described as false, which were issued by the committee reviewing the work of the committee to dismantle the former regime before freezing them.

The leader of the Sudanese Congress Party, Noureddine Babiker, told Al Jazeera yesterday, Wednesday, that a security force stormed the party's house and arrested Khaled Omar Youssef, Minister of Cabinet Affairs and a leader in the party.

Youssef was released on November 27, among ministers and officials arrested following the actions of the army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, on October 25.

It is noteworthy that in October of last year, Al-Burhan announced - as part of his exceptional decisions - the freezing of the work of the Committee to Dismantle the Deposed Regime (Omar al-Bashir), which is also called the “Committee to Dismantle the Regime of June 30, 1989”, in reference to the date of al-Bashir’s assumption of power. .

The resigned Prime Minister, Abdullah Hamdouk, mediates with members of the Committee to Dismantle the Regime (Agencies)

Empowerment Removal Committee

The Committee for Removing Empowerment, Fighting Corruption and Recovering Funds was formed in accordance with the constitutional document that was signed in August 2019 between the Forces for Freedom and Change and the Military Council at the time, to work on recovering public funds believed to have been obtained by the leaders of the former regime illegally. The committee also handles the dismissal and removal of affiliates The isolated system is one of the important institutions.

In order to frame the work of the committee, a special law was enacted giving it wide powers, including confiscation and the issuance of arrest warrants through its prosecution offices, and its law also stipulated the punishment of those who challenge its decisions by force of law in accordance with Article 14 of the Committee’s Law of 2019 Amendment 2020.

The dismantling committee has always been described as a symbol of the revolution, and it has garnered wide support from supporters of the government whose dissolution has been announced, and adhering to it has become a demand hardly exceeded by any official in the state, in return for skepticism and a violent war waged against it after the involvement of a number of its affiliates in corruption deals and temptations, officials approved In the dismantling committee of their occurrence and investigation.

On November 21, Al-Burhan and Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok signed a political agreement that included the latter's return to the presidency of the transitional government, the formation of a government of competencies, and the release of political detainees.

But last January, Hamdok resigned from his position, in light of protests rejecting his agreement with Al-Burhan, and demanding full civilian rule.