Khartoum — On Saturday, Judge El Sadig Abdelrahman El Faki formally indicted ousted President Omar Al Bashir, who ruled Sudan for 30 years before being deposed by a military coup d'état on April 11, for illegal ownership of wealth and suspicious richness and possession of foreign currency. Bashir implicated the former director of his office - who has since been arrested - and testified that the Saudi Crown Prince was the source of the cash.
The decision to formally charge Al Bashir came after the accused former leader responded to questions from the court from a cage within the highly secured Judicial and Legal Science Institute in Khartoum. The court also weighed the testimony of several witnesses who were questioned last week.
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