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The “Enabling Removal Committee” hands over to the Ministry of Finance billions of dollars.. Sudan’s transitional government continues to “dismantle” the Bashir regime

Source of the news / Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper


Khartoum: Ahmed Younes

The Committee to Dismantle the Bashir Regime in Sudan, which is concerned with liquidating the property and influence of members of the former regime, presented an account of its work since its establishment in 2019. In its report, the Committee enumerated the liquidation it carried out of the political and economic centers of the Bashir regime, and the National Congress Party, which was headed and founded by Omar al-Bashir The Muslim Brotherhood ruled the country for 30 years.

The committee also announced in a press conference yesterday evening (Thursday), the handover of all the money and real estate that it recovered from members of the former regime and its party, to the Ministry of Finance, as well as the liquidation of the party and the regime and its moza from their civil service jobs.

Member of the Sovereignty Council, Alternate Chairman of the Committee, Muhammad Al-Faki Suleiman, said that the work of the Committee is political par excellence, and its goal is to liquidate the isolated regime, its party, and its financial and economic centers, by recovering the money looted from the people. He added, "No one who looted the people's money, even a camel's head, will escape," in reference to the efforts made by his committee to pursue, liquidate and dismantle the Islamist regime.

Recently, the Committee to Dismantle the Salvation Regime faced widespread skepticism campaigns from members of the isolated regime, accusations of corruption and disposing of recovered funds and that they are illegal, and it practices the same practices as the Bashir regime, especially after conflicting statements between the committee and the Minister of Finance, which are the questions that came in the press conference and the inventory of the account to refute it.

Al-Faki promised to move forward with the implementation of the goals of the December 2019 revolution by recovering all the looted funds, and revealed that decisive decisions were taken during the next few days, especially the pursuit of “loans” worth billions of dollars borrowed in the name of Sudan, which were seized by the symbols of the isolated regime without implementing projects. for which the borrowing was made.

Regarding the use of funds and real estate recovered by the committee, Al-Faki said that his committee is not concerned with this matter, and its task ends with issuing a decision to transfer the property directly to the Ministry of Finance, which becomes responsible for employing these funds. He called on journalists to monitor the work of the committee and scrutinize any accusations against one of its members.

Al-Faki warned against tax evasion, calling on evaders to adjust their tax situation before the committee’s work reaches them, saying: “Then, regret will not work,” in reference to the extensive tax exemptions that were granted to the symbols of the isolated regime, its accountants and supporters, and the cessation of tax collection from them, with tax tightening.

On the non-loyal to the Bashir government and the Islamists. Al-Faki commented on the low tax collection in the country, and said that Sudan is the least tax collecting country, and tax rates do not exceed 5% of state income, yet the majority of them are not collected, compared to taxes ranging between 12 and 14% in neighboring countries.


In turn, the Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowments, Nasr El-Din Mufreh, announced the recovery of large numbers of endowments from the cronies and organizations of the Bashir regime through the Committee to Dismantle Empowerment, with a value of about 215 trillion and 450 billion pounds (a dollar is equivalent to 451 Sudanese pounds). Mufreh said that the total of the endowment properties whose recovery operations were completed amounted to 81 properties, and he stopped at a property that he said that the brother of the ousted president, al-Bashir, was returning about 300,000 dollars annually to him, which is now returned to the Ministry of Awqaf, and that the president’s brother “was manipulating real estate rents by subletting.” Especially in the “Gold Market Building” in central Khartoum, where he pays the endowment 8,000 pounds, while he gets three kilograms of gold.

Mufreh explained that the committee recovered 105 properties in the state of Gezira alone with an annual return of about 1.425 billion pounds, which were allocated to caring for children and cancer patients in the state, developing health services, and rehabilitating the endowment.


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