Daglo Warns Dollar Speculators and Gold Smugglers of Deterrent Penalties

The Vice – President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, has called on the Sudanese businessmen and exporters to elevate the interest of the country, give priority to the benefit of Sudan over personal benefits, and to work with the government and the people to change the current economic situation.

“We do not want businessmen to work only for their own benefit, we want our motto to be: Sudan first”, he said.

Addressing the businessmen, importers and exporters at the Federation of Chambers of Commerce Association on Wednesday, Gen. Daglo stressed that the conditions are reassuring in terms of gold reserves available in the Bank of Sudan, in addition to the policies adopted for enhancing the current economic conditions.

He acknowledged the decline in the performance of the federal ministries during the last period by a large percentage, a matter which affected the stability of the economic conditions in the country, in addition to the presence of what he called the “mafia” that is active in speculation in dollars and gold and earns from the sweat of the Sudanese people, threatening the speculators and evaders of tax payment by deterrent trials, pointed out that the current laws are insufficient to deter the smugglers.

Gen. Daglo has criticized the work of some banks and accused them of violating banking regulations by engaging in fuel import operations and speculation, hinting to holding these

banks accountable and obligating them to work according to directives, or they will be closed down.

He pledged that there will be drastic solutions to the problems at Port-Sudan Harbor in the coming days, indicating that he will visit the harbor to solve the shortcomings.

He called for speeding up establishment of a gold and seeds stock exchange, adding that measures will be adopted to facilitate the export and import procedures.