Sudan's public prosecutor has begun investigating ousted President Omar al-Bashir on charges of money laundering and possession of large sums of foreign currency without legal grounds, a judicial source said Saturday.
The source said that military intelligence had searched al-Bashir's home and found suitcases loaded with more than $351,000 and €6 million, as well as 5 million Sudanese pounds.
"The chief public prosecutor . . . ordered the (former) president detained and quickly questioned in preparation to put him on trial," a judicial source said.