Rhino: Agencies – US-based Sudanese journalist Abdel Rahman al-Amin revealed, citing sources, that Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan paid $9 million on 30 June as the first instalment – out of a total of $70 million – in a deal with a security company to bring in mercenaries to fight with the army against the Rapid Support Forces.
Al-Amin published a leaked document detailing the completion of a SWIFT bank transfer from the Central Bank of Sudan, referred to as BSDNSDKH, to Al Salam Bank in Bahrain, whose address is in Snaps Island, and whose code is ALSABHHBM
The leaked document states that the purpose of the transfer is to finance credit, and that the amount transferred is $9 million. The sending client is the ‘Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning’ and the bank where the amount will be deposited is Zenith Bank in Lagos, in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Item ‘59’ in the document indicated that the beneficiary of this credit transfer is the company ‘Konela’ for the recruitment of mercenaries, and the services performed by Konela, according to which the invoice provided by it is paid, is – according to the document – a benefit of $ 9 million to Konela, in return for providing ‘support and support for the Transitional Sovereignty Council.’
According to Al-Amin, the source revealed the details of the $70 million contract that the Sudanese government concluded with Conella Security Services LLC, saying that the mercenary company will receive only $47 million Al-Burhan ‘personally intervened’ and directed the Islamist brokers to share $23 million between them, which equates to 32.8 per cent, a little more than a third of the value of the contract.
Commenting on the delay in sending the payment from the date written in the document, Abdel Rahman al-Amin said: ‘It is clear that the Port Sudan government was keen to pass this “most important” transaction on the first working day of the Bank of Sudan after the weekend, as the transfer was due on 27 June, but it fell on a “Thursday”, the weekly holiday for banks in Sudan, so they waited until Sunday to send the amount.
‘Konela is a South African company specializing in the recruitment of mercenaries, contracted by the Port Sudan government in its frantic search to continue the war and the depletion of its local military resources. Konela gained notoriety after the Nigerian government secretly contracted it 10 years ago to defeat the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram. When it was brought in in 2014, Konela was registered in Nigeria under the number 1231667 and the Nigerian operations account holder was the consulting contractor De Waal van Jaarsveld.)
He continued:(The humanitarian circumstance in which this huge amount of money was allocated for the recruitment of mercenaries and the state of the country is exposed, obviates any statement that raises eyebrows, while the mother of all tragedies we witnessed in the protest of the governors of ‘Portkizan’ to the UNICEF official yesterday, and ‘with a shameless eye’, complaining about the inaction of the international community and its departure from relief for the hungry people of Sudan, while they bring in those who blow its flames to burn even more!).
