A large hoard of cash has been found at the home of Sudan's ousted president Omar al-Bashir and he is now being investigated for money laundering, prosecutors say.

Security services found euros, dollars and Sudanese pounds totalling more than $130m (£100m)..

The ex-leader was placed under house arrest after months of protests led to his removal.

Reports say Mr Bashir is now being held at the Kobar high-security prison.

A source in Sudan's judiciary told Reuters news agency that suitcases loaded with more than $351,000, €6m ($6.7m; £5.2m) and five billion Sudanese pounds ($105m) were found at Mr Bashir's home.

The source also confirmed Mr Bashir was under investigation, telling Reuters prosecutors would "question the former president in Kobar prison".

A picture carried by the Netherlands-based media outlet Radio Dabanga shows men in army uniforms standing over what appears to be several sacks full of cash.

The money, which Radio Dabanga says was shown to reporters, was stuffed in bags designed to contain 50kg (110lbs) of grain.

But despite moves to hold Mr Bashir to account, Sudan's army does not appear to have the confidence of protesters demanding civilian rule, BBC Africa correspondent, Alastair Leithead, says.


Protesters want civilian rule'
Alastair Leithead, BBC News, Khartoum

The mass sit-in continues in the centre of Khartoum, amid a lack of trust that the military council is committed to handing over power to a civilian transitional authority.

Each day concessions are announced, but there's little proof that what's been promised has been delivered.

There have been no images of the former president in prison, nor any response from the generals over a demand they give up power to a civilian administration.

The general public prosecutor's announcement that Mr Bashir is being investigated for money laundering after cash was found at his home is news the demonstrators would like to hear.

The Sudanese military toppled Mr Bashir on 11 April but demonstrators, led by The Sudanese Professionals Association, have vowed to stay on the streets until there is a move to civilian rule.

Mr Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes in the country's Darfur region.

Sudan's military, however, says it will not extradite him and will try him in the country instead.


Uganda would consider offering the deposed leader asylum if he applied, the country's Minister for Foreign Affairs Henry Oryem Okello told Reuters.

Until this week, Mr Bashir's whereabouts since his removal were unknown.

The coup leader at the time, Awad Ibn Auf, said Mr Bashir was being detained in a "safe place".

He himself stood down soon afterwards, with Lt Gen Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan named as head of the transitional military council.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47997729

African Leaders!!!

Lalasticlala

Money that you won't take $1 out of this Earth!

Stupidity @ its Peak!

African leaders are wicked!!!

I reckon the protest started as a result of high price of bread

This money can feed the entire country

Buhari God dey watch you there,,,

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African mentality... I regret being an Africa

African mentality... I regret being an Africa ...

1.debit - Omar

2.credit - Treasury

A country with sanity.

God bless Sudan

NgeneUkwenu:
$103M only? This is just the money in one of Patience Jonathan's numerous bank account, she and her husband cornered from our Common patrimony.

May God Punish Jonathan!

Just imagine that they only spent 6years in office

What if they had spent 10years

lalasticlala

God is punishing these evil, wicked, raghead, janja-weed, demonic arab subhumans for all their crimes against black Africans in Southern Sudan and Darfur.

They used genocide and mass rapes to force the Southern Sudanese to opt for their own country. When the South left, they took all their oil along with them, and that was the beginning of the economic troubles of the lazy, useless arabs. They should enjoy their shithole country.

Typical African idiots...They loot and buy properties to develop the white mans land and they later blame them for all their misfortunes in life. Exactly what the previous Jonathan government too did, na after buhari regime we go know how much hin cabal sef don steal.

BlacSmit:
African leaders are wicked!!!

I reckon the protest started as a result of high price of bread

This money can feed the entire country

Buhari God go punish you there,,,

Is Buhari the President of Sudan?

Why do you like exposing your inherited folly?

Someone will say that's part of his cut for providing a certain JUBRIL but what's my business. . . let them release the funds so that madam first lady will build a university.

kingharzy:


Someone will say that's part of his cut for providing a certain JUBRIL but what's my business. . . let them release the funds so that madam first lady will build a university.

And that Jubril did a damn good job making Ipob pigs and the Camerounian pickpocket cry like witches.

African leaders with greediness

Vanity upon vanity

sparog:


Just imagine that they only spent 6years in office

What if they had spent 10years

That's a fat lie. The figures mentioned weren't up to 4 million dollars.
And no amount stolen is right, no matter how little it is.

This man was Buhari's best friend

The amount is not up to $130m...stop spreading fake news

NgeneUkwenu:
$103M only? This is just the money in one of Patience Jonathan's numerous bank accounts, she and her husband cornered from our Common patrimony.

May God Punish Jonathan!

You, who or what ever you are,if after all this years your still carrying this Jonathan issue for head..sincerly theres a curse following you oo,

Something is wrong, i hope solution locates you

The tyrant was planning an escape before the army struck.
It was greed that kept him so late.

That is 46.8Biliion in naira....journalists are the best liars on earth

Chimaokigwe:


And that Jubril did a damn good job making Ipob pigs and the Camerounian pickpocket cry like witches.

Good to know. Too bad a fictional character only exists in the pages and scences of fictions and oldwives night time/online tales.

One person has 130$ and you say Africa will ever be better

African leaders are birthed by same parents.