Khartoum.. Convicting Al-Bashir's wife of illegal wealth and confiscating her property

Today, the Anti-Corruption Criminal Court in Khartoum convicted Widad Babiker, the wife of ousted Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, of illegal wealth, and ordered the confiscation of agricultural and residential lands, real estate, bank accounts, and gold jewelry that she owned illegally, and also ruled that she be fined 100 billion Sudanese pounds (about 127 thousand dollars). );

Convicted on charges of ill-gotten wealth.

 The court ordered the confiscation of 11 residential plots of land owned by Wedad, in different neighborhoods in Khartoum, in addition to agricultural lands in the “Slate” and “Kadro” projects in the city of Bahri.

The court indicated that the accused continued to pay retirement dues to her late husband, an officer in the armed forces, Ibrahim Shams El-Din, for more than 16 years after his death, and even after her marriage to President Al-Bashir.

According to the judge, the Sudanese Armed Forces Retirement Pensions Act waives the entitlement for the wife of the deceased as soon as she marries another person, and it also waives for his children after marriage.

Al-Bashir married Widad Babiker, after the death of her husband, Colonel Ibrahim Shams al-Din, who was a minister of state in the Ministry of Defense, and one of the most prominent leaders of the 1989 coup, in the crash of a military plane in 2001 in the “Adareel” region in the state of South Kordofan on the border with the state of South Sudan.

The committee to dismantle and liquidate the regime of the ousted president had confiscated dozens of residential lands from the accused, Widad Babiker, and her children in upscale neighborhoods in Khartoum.

In December 2019, the Sudanese authorities arrested Al-Bashir’s wife;

To investigate with her about reports related to the acquisition of land and residential real estate, and she issued a decision at the time to seize all her property and the possessions of her children and to ban her from traveling.

The Public Prosecution had written a report against Wydad Babiker;

For violating the text of Article (7) of the Law on Combating Suspicious Illicit Wealth of 1989, Amendment of 1996, the court heard 5 accusation witnesses and 15 defense witnesses.

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