SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Sudan govt seizes assets of Islamic movement leaders

24/4/2020: Radio Dabanga - Sudan govt seizes assets of Islamic movement leaders

 Radio Dabanga reports that Sudan’s Anti-Corruption Committee confiscated 79 real estate properties that were illegally acquired by leading members of ousted President Omar al-Bashir’s regime.

 The Anti-Corruption Committee announced that the confiscated properties amount to 36,411,114 square metres. The value of the seized funds is estimated at $1.20 billion.

 Leading Islamist Abdelbasit Hamza came top of the list. Six plots of nearly 15 million square metres belonging to his Dongola Ergin Road Company in Northern State were seized, in addition to more than one million acres of agricultural lands.

 Hamza also owned land in Khartoum including the Friendship Palace Hotel and the majority of shares of Salam Rotana Hotel, the Afra Mall, and a large number of shares at MTN Sudan telecommunication company.