Sudanese authorities arrest members of Bashir's party - source
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n another part of a widening crackdown designed to remove remnants of Bashir's rule, the transitional military council (TMC) said it will retire all eight of the officers ranked lieutenant general in the ational ntelligence and ecurity ervice. pposition groups had demanded that the security agencies be restructured.
udan s pu lic prosecutor has begun investigating Bashir on charges of money laundering and possession of large sums of foreign currency without legal grounds, a judicial source said earlier on aturday.
The source said military intelligence officers ho searched ashir s home found suitcases loaded with more than $351,000 and six million euros as ell as five million udanese pounds.
“The chief public prosecutor ... ordered the (former) president detained and quickly questioned in preparation to put him on trial,” the judicial source told euters.
“The public prosecution will question the former president in Kobar prison,” the source said. ashir has not been questioned yet, the source added. o of his brothers were also detained on allegations of corruption, the source said.
Relatives could not immediately be reached on Saturday for comment about the investigation.
Separately, a source in ashir s ational ongress Party said authorities arrested the acting party head Ahmed Haroun, former first vice president Ali Osman Taha, former Bashir aide Awad al-Jaz, the secretary general of the slamic movement Al u air Ahmed Hassan and former parliament speaker Ahmed rahim al aher.
The source also said parliament speaker rahim Ahmed mar and presidential aide afie Ali afie ere under house arrest.