SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Sudan Tribune – Sudan’s military want to use detained committee members as bargaining chips
Sudan Tribune report that Erwa al-Sadiq, a member of the suspended Tamkeen Committee, said that the military took committee leaders hostage to force them to accept a political settlement.
Al-Sadiq said that the committee, which aimed to dismantle the institutions and companies of former president Omar al-Bashir’s regime, alongside curbing robberies of public money and smuggling of natural resources, “revealed operations through Port Sudan airport linked to the Russian Wagner group, fought the drug mafia, stopped land grabbing, and corruption in the sale of the state-owned companies,” and compiled corruption cases threatening the interests of powerful senior officials linked to al-Bashir including ministers and bank directors “who allied to overthrow the [civilian] government”.
Committee leaders are accused of breaching trust and embezzling public funds, charges they deny as the properties and companies they confiscated are managed by security and ministry of finance officials.