SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Reuters - Sudan investigating Bashir after large sums of cash found at home: source

20/4/19: Reuters - Sudan investigating Bashir after large sums of cash found at home: source

 A judicial source has told Reuters that Sudan’s public prosecutor has begun investigating ousted President Omar Al Bashir on charges of money laundering and possession of large sums of foreign currency without legal grounds.

 Military intelligence had searched Bashir’s home and found suitcases loaded with more than $351,000 and six million euros, as well as five million Sudanese pounds.

 The source told Reuters that “the chief public prosecutor...ordered the (former) president detained and quickly questioned in preparation to put him on trial…the public prosecution will question the former president in Kobar prison.”