Ousted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will stand trial on corruption charges after a one-week period for objections expires, Chief prosecutor Alwaleed Sayed Ahmed Mahmoud said Saturday.
He also said that 41 former officials from Bashir's government are being investigated for suspected graft.
"Forty-one criminal cases have been opened against symbols of the former regime, and measures to capture and investigate will completed next week," he added during a news conference in the capital, Khartoum.
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Separately, Mahmoud said the judiciary had not been consulted ahead of a decision to violently disperse a protest camp in the center of the capital in early June. Dozens of people were killed in the crackdown, which undermined talks on a transition to democracy.
The protest camp outside the Defense Ministry became the focal point of protests as demonstrators demanded the military hand over power to civilians.
This article has been adapted from its original source.
