Sudan’s public prosecutor has commenced investigating ousted President Omar al-Bashir on charges of money laundering and possession of large sums of foreign currency without legal grounds, a judicial source said on Saturday. “The chief public prosecutor… ordered the (former) president detained and quickly questioned in preparation to put him on trial,” a judicial source said. “The public prosecution will question the former president in Kobar prison,” the source added. Bashir’s family said this week that the former president had been moved to the high-security Kobar prison in Khartoum. The council also ordered the “suspension of the transfer of ownership of any shares until further notice and for any large or suspect transfers of shares or companies to be reported” to authorities.

Source: Punch April 20, 2019 15:22 UTC