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The seizure of the assets of a number of companies is also part of Khartoum’s efforts to release elements linked to the old leader; Omar al-Bashir, at the same time refused to be a safe haven for Hamas.
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A Sudanese government source said a committee set up to recover public funds after al-Bashir’s ouster had taken over companies linked to the Hamas group.
According to the source, the entities taken over included property company Hassan & Al-Abed, agricultural project Al-Bidaya, High Paradise Hotel and money transfer company Al-Fayha.
“They got special treatment in tenders, tax pardons, and they were allowed to turn to Hamas and [pindah] into Gaza indefinitely,” a task force member of the committee told Reuters, Friday (9/24/2021), on condition of anonymity.
Another source said Sudan’s ruling sovereign council confirmed the seizure of assets of Hamas-linked companies in Sudan had been confiscated by the state.
Reuters described the seizures as part of Sudan’s efforts to move westward after Bashir’s ouster in 2019, essentially denying Hamas operatives a safe haven to raise funds and transfer Iranian weapons to Gaza.
Sudan signed a normalization deal with Israel last year as part of the Abraham Agreement. Other countries doing the same are the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco.
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