SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Sudan’s Religious Affairs Ministry to be probed for corruption

30/12/2019: Radio Dabanga - Sudan’s Religious Affairs Ministry to be probed for corruption

Radio Dabanga reports that Sudan’s Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowments, Nasreldin Mofreh, has announced that the Public Prosecutor will establish a special team to investigate corruption cases in his Ministry.

The departments dealing with endowments and with the Haj and Omra (pilgrimages to Mecca) will be subject to specific scrutiny.

He reported that corruption has been detected in contracts of up to 117 endowments. “We have found an infringement concerning two buildings in Saudi Arabia, in addition to theft of the contents of a building that was being exploited by the Sudanese Consulate in Jeddah.”

The Minister acknowledged the existence of fraud in the Haj and Omra administration: “Six ambulances disappeared during the hand-over process last year,” he said.