Over $351 Million US Dollars Cash, Found At The Ousted Sudanese President Residence.

Millions of Cash in US Dollars have reportedly been discovered at the residence of former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan. Al-Bashir was forced to stepdown as Sudan president by military coup which took place on April 11. Initially, he was placed under house arrest before being transferred to Kobar prison, where some of his critics was detained by him when he was in power. The seizure of the huge amount of money was announced by Mutasim Mahmoud, senior public prosecutor in Sudan. Mutasim Mahmoud said that a total of $351 million, €6,7 million, and SDG 5 billion ($105 million) at the residence of Al-Bashir, former president were recovered seized . Mahmoud said that the cash is protected inside the vaults of the Bank of Sudan, and that charges will be filed against the former president under the foreign exchange and money laundering law. Portion of the money was chockfull in a sacks aimed for 50kg of maize meal, according to Dabanga, Netherlands-based media outlet. Reuters quoted a source in Sudan’s judiciary as saying suitcases loaded with more than $351,000, €6m ($6.7m; £5.2m) and five billion Sudanese pounds ($105m) were found at Bashir’s home. The agency said the source also confirmed that Bashir was under investigation and that prosecutors would “question the former president in Kobar prison”. Al Jazeera said as president, al-Bashir often played up his humble beginnings as the child of a poor farming family in Hosh Bannaga, a small village consisting mainly of mud houses on the eastern bank of the Nile some 150km north of Khartoum. Bashir is required by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes in the country’s Darfur region but the military which is in charge of the country has sworn not to transfer him. The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), which prepared the protests that forced al-Bashir out of control, has voiced displeasure with the military taking control of the country but the military council has counterattacked calls to hand over power to a civilian body. The association has promised to stay on the roads until there is a transfer to civilian regime.