Since the ousting of Omar al-Bashir, Khartoum has been purging the Palestinian militant group
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Hamas has lost a foreign base where members and supporters could live, raise money and channel Iranian weapons and funds to the Gaza Strip, Sudanese and Palestinian analysts said. Sudan became a centre for money laundering and terrorism financing, said Wagdi Salih, a leading member of the task force, called the Committee to Dismantle the June 30, 1989 Regime and Retrieve Public Funds.A Western intelligence source said techniques were used in Sudan that are common to organised crime: companies were headed by trustee shareholders, rents collected in cash, and transfers made through exchange bureaus.
The task force says it was in a network with about 10 other large companies with interlinking share ownership connected to Bashir ally Abdelbasit Hamza that moved large sums through foreign bank accounts. A second network, worth up to $20m, revolved around the broadcaster Tayba and an associated charity named Almishkat. It was run by two Hamas members who got citizenship and amassed businesses and real estate, according to Maher Abouljokh, the caretaker brought in to manage Tayba. The TV channel was funnelling money from the Gulf, laundered millions of dollars, and had clear links to Hamas, said Abouljokh.
A former US diplomat who worked on Sudan under the Trump administration said shutting down the Hamas network was a focus in negotiations with Khartoum. “We were pushing on an open door,” he said.
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