Sudan has resorted to Interpol to pursue former head of intelligence in ousted president Omar al-Bashir’s regime.
Former head of the dissolved National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) Salah Gosh is accused of plotting terrorist attacks aimed at undermining the constitutional system in the country.
Investigations have implicated him in forming a terrorist cell that was arrested ahead of the attacks that were planned for May 2019.
A trial will kick off in Khartoum on Sunday for members of the cell. They have been identified as former members of the so-called People’s Security Service (PSS) and security officials from Bashir’s dissolved ruling National Congress Party (NCP).
The prosecution had announced that 24 suspects were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the plot and for seeking to violently oppose the authorities.
Interpol had in February agreed to Sudan’s request to apprehend Gosh, who is on the run in a neighboring country.
Gosh is viewed as the founder of Bashir’s notorious security agency that has been complicit in the murder of peaceful protesters in rallies that led to the ouster of the longtime president in April 2019.
Sources from the general prosecution told Asharq Al-Awsat that investigations have shown that Gosh was the main plotter of the terrorist attacks. He was involved in financing the cell and providing it with logistic support.
Weapons, explosives and modern communication equipment were seized from the cell.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the sources said the suspects confessed that Gosh would have assumed a “major” position in the country had the operation been a success and the new transitional authority ousted.
