Sudan’s Public Prosecution will commence legal actions against a new group of former officials of ousted President Omar al-Bashir’s regime.
The former officials are being charged with murder, corruption and torture.
The judiciary will set dates for the trials of five cases of murder during protests in Atbara city as referred by the Public Prosecution.
Investigations into an incident where a detainee was tortured to death by the Rapid Support Forces in December 2020 have also been completed. The report will be referred to the judiciary within days.
Attorney General, Tajelsir El Hibir, received the forensic reports on the autopsy of exhumed bodies of the Kajbar Dam martyrs, and the incident was documented as a criminal association and premeditated murder.
The Kajbar Dam events date back to 2007 when members of the security forces of the former regime shot dead four people during a peaceful march denouncing the construction of the dam, which was threatening to inundate their areas.
Former finance ministers, Ali Mahmoud Abdel-Rasoul and Al-Zubair Ahmed al-Hassan, the Secretary-General of the Islamic Movement, among others, are facing corruption charges relating to their selling of the state’s River Transport Authority, according to the prosecution’s statement.
The prosecution also charged ministers Awad Ahmed al-Jaz and Abdel Halim al-Mutafi along with others with corruption charges in the case of the Mashkour Sugar Company. Former governor, al-Haji Atta Al-Mannan was also indicted in corruption charges in the case of the AlNile Bank.
The Prosecution’s office of Crimes Against the State and Counterterrorism issued 34 reports against former officials for using foreign currencies outside the banking system, and their involvement in counterfeiting networks.
Since the toppling of Bashir and the establishment of the transitional government, the Prosecution has been working on several cases and reports to hold the regime accountable for its crimes.
The ousted president was convicted of corruption, and his comrades are under trial for plotting the 1989 coup that overthrew the elected democratic government led by the late Prime Minister al-Sadiq al-Mahdi.
