London — The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia set up by the regime of ousted president Al Bashir, has built up a vast business empire that captures not only a large part of the country's gold industry, but has huge interests in many sectors of the Sudanese economy. The anti-corruption NGO Global Witness has published a report about the financial networks behind the RSF and their commander Lt Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti'.
The Global Witness investigation started with bank and corporate documents that were originally published by satirical Sudanese online channel El Bashoum. El Bashoum described them as leaked from 'support companies' of the RSF. Other documents were obtained by Global Witness in the course of their own investigation.
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