SHOCKING: Over $ 350m Found in Ex President’s Residence (Photos)
Reports reaching mouthpiece NG news room has it that huge sums of cash have been discovered by anti-corruption investigators at ex Omar al Bashir’s former residence, less than two weeks after he was kicked out of office in a military coup.
Senior public prosecutor in Sudan, Mutasim Mahmoud, in a statement, announcing the seizure of $ 351 million, € 6.7 million, and SDG 5 billion ($ 105 million) at the residence.
A source in Sudan’s judiciary saying suitcases loaded with more than $ 351,000, € 6m ($ 6.7m; £ 5.2m) and five billion Sudanese pounds ($ 105m) were found at Bashir’s home. The agency said the source that Bashir was under investigation and that prosecutors would “question the former president in Kobar prison”
As president, al-Bashir has played with his humble beginnings and is a child of poor farming family in Hosh Bannaga, and a small village consisting mainly of mud houses on the eastern bank of the Nile some 150km north of Khartoum. Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes in the country’s Darfur region.
The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), which organized the protests that forced the al-Bashir out of power, has been dissatisfied with the military taking control of the country but the military council has resisted calls to power to and civilian points.
The association has vowed to stay on the streets until there is a civilian rule.