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Sudan’s Bashir got $90 mn from Saudi, investigator tells court
KHARTOUM, Aug 19, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Sudan’s deposed military ruler Omar al-
Bashir has admitted to receiving $90 million in cash from Saudi Arabia’s
crown prince, an investigator told a Khartoum court on Monday.
Police Brigadier Ahmed Ali said at the opening of Bashir’s corruption
trial, which an AFP correspondent attended, that the former president told
him the money was “delivered by some of Mohamed bin Salman’s envoys”.
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