A Sudanese anti-corruption committee said on Tuesday that it had seized a bank account belonging to ousted President Omar al-Bashir.
Mohamed Al-Faki, Chairman of the Committee for the Elimination of Empowerment and Recovery of Funds, told reporters in Khartoum that the committee had confiscated the bank account of Bashir through which every month millions of US dollars were channelled.
Also, he said the committee fired 651 civil servants belonging to the former regime and closed five foreign exchange bureaus used to fund it.
Al-Faki revealed that National Congress Party (NCP) also purchased an airplane and it has been found. He further announced that new criminal charges were filed against the ousted president for squandering state funds on personal expenses.
According to Al-Faki, the committee also found the names of people who received money from companies belonging to prominent NCP members, such as well-known media outlets and money transfer companies.
The committee has been charged by the attorney general with dismantling the system built by Bashir after his removal in April last year.
A Sudanese court handed Bashir a first, two-year sentence in December on corruption charges.
Bashir also faces trials and investigations over the killing of protesters and his role in the 1989 coup that brought him to power.