Khartroum, January 15(Darfurt24) A Sudanese court on Sunday convicted the wife of former dictator Omar Al Bashir of illegally amassing wealth and ruled to strip her of her assets, court officials said.
Today, the Public Money Court, headed by Judge Al-Moez Babiker Al-Jazouli Othman, issued a ruling confiscating real estate, bank accounts, gold jewelry, and agricultural lands against the wife of the former president.
Widad Babiker, who is believed to be in her late 40s, is Al Bashir’s second wife.
She can appeal the ruling within two weeks.
The court warned that Wadad was convicted of illegal wealth, due to her disbursement of a financial pension from the armed forces from 2002 to 2019 , despite the loss of his entitlement to the army pension since her marriage to the ousted President Omar Al-Bashir in 2004 .
Corruption allegations have swirled around Al Bashir’s second wife since the dictator was ousted in 2019 following a popular uprising.
Al Bashir himself was convicted on corruption charges in 2020 and sentenced to two years in a correctional facility.
Widad Babiker married Al Bashir in 2002, less than a year after her first husband, army general Ibrahim Shamseldeen, was killed in a plane crash.
Al Bashir is currently on trial for overthrowing a democratically-elected government when he seized power in a 1989 coup.
He is facing a separate trial for the shooting deaths of protesters during the December 2018 to April 2019 uprising that forced the military to topple him