#Sudan .. The story of the theft of 13 billion dollars #usa #uk #bitcoin

Osman Mirghani

The Sudanese followed with interest a report broadcast by CNN satellite channel yesterday, Friday, July 29, 2022, which concluded that the value of gold extracted from the land of Sudan and smuggled to Russia exceeds 13 billion dollars annually, through Russian companies engaged in exploration and production of gold that takes off from airfields in the heart of the desert and comes out without Going through the sovereign and official procedures of the Central Bank of Sudan. The American satellite indicated that this gold finances Russia's war effort, at a time when America and European countries are striving to besiege Russia economically and hamper its ability to continue financing the exorbitant war bill. Perhaps this number is a lot less than the truth, as long as no one is able to see what comes out of the ground and then flies directly to the outside, any number mentioned is believable, but the most important issue remains, how? And why? How can a huge revolution like this be tolerated in a country that needs almost every dollar to meet a huge deficit in its necessary expenses, such as food and medicine, and even financing the spinning of the huge wheel of the civil service? Why does such wealth come out - regardless of which side it goes to - without the control of the hand or the normal foreign investment procedures that control what belongs to Caesar to Caesar and what belongs to Sudan to Sudan? The answer seems more painful than the smuggled gold; Several months ago, we had a meeting with a high-ranking official in tourism at the headquarters of the National Museum in Khartoum, which is one of the most important tourist centers in Sudan. I asked him permission to walk around the museum halls for a while. I was surprised by him telling me, “There is nothing worth seeing, the museum is almost empty!” Where have the antiquities, gold, and priceless historical wealth gone? No answer. The tragedy did not stop here, as he told me that other antiquities outside the museum in the various states of Sudan are no longer known where they went after they began to gradually disappear. These treasures, which combine wealth and historical glory, were not stolen through airports in the heart of the desert like gold, but here in Khartoum openly during the day and from within guarded official headquarters! And without shedding a single tear of grief. In the island project, which covers an area of ​​more than two million acres, until recently it was almost independent of a network of railways, communications and headquarters distributed in vast areas. These establishments, including the railway tracks embedded in the ground and in broad daylight, were plundered in plain sight, even the palatial houses built for the residence of the agricultural inspectors, including the bricks with which they were built, the roofs, the doors, and the windows. The railway line connecting the capital, Khartoum, with eastern Sudan, runs south to Sennar and then ascends east to Kassala City. The entire rails of its path from Sennar to Kassala have disappeared, a distance of nearly 600 kilometers from the railways. Several years ago, I went to visit the headquarters of the Constituent Assembly “Parliament” in Khartoum, which is a unique historical site built by the British colonialists with the specifications and design that is exactly like the seat of the British Parliament in London. Surprisingly, I did not find anything on the site indicating that there was a historic parliament here, visited by senior world leaders and spoke from its podium, the most important of which were Arab kings and presidents in the most famous Arab summit in August 1967 immediately after the Six-Day War with Israel, which was called the summit of the three “Nos”. Even the famous seats of Parliament have completely disappeared, and the most insidious are the precious historical photos that documented the history of the events and personalities that passed through the site, nothing at all. Sudan, whose exit without a visa or procedures was discovered by CNN, was not an exception to the absence of an institutional state. The one who controls resources and even extends sovereignty over the entire geography of Sudan is not just personalities, a political system, good or bad intentions, but rather “institutions” that achieve meaning “The rule of law” as is the case in all countries of the world. It is possible to accuse a person or entity of negligence if the matter is confined to only one resource and one loophole, even if it costs the country tens of billions of dollars, but when the state of absence of the state is common in its institutional content, it is equal to theft of a dollar and a million dollars. The lesson is not in the value, but in the fact that the state itself is devoid of institutional strength, more like a person suffering from anemia and a complete breakdown in his health, unable to stand on his feet. Nothing will harm him if his watch is stolen from his wrist. What he lacks is wellness, not the watch. In a dramatic story, a criminal gang stole the treasuries of a large bank, he was hoarding millions of dollars, and when they reached their safety, one of the gang members said to the leader, let's count the money we stole, the leader replied and why bother counting it? We'll know the number when we hear the news. Who said that stolen gold is worth only 13 billion and not 33 or even 300 billion dollars? As long as it is stolen without papers and the shipments do not pass through a supervisory authority. Stolen is not gold, but a country. arm news