Foreign Ministry Issues Statement on Freezing of Account of Sudan’s Embassy’s in Madrid

Khartoum(SUNA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued today, a press statement on the news reported in a newspaper about the issuance of a decision by the Spanish authorities for the freezing of the account of the Sudan’s embassy in Madrid.

The press statement noted that Al-Sudani newspaper has published in its issue of September 13, 2020, a news item indicating that the Spanish authorities had taken, surprisingly, a decision to freeze the account of the Sudanese embassy in Madrid after discovering transfers of large sums of money from that account to accounts in other countries, on which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs clarifys the facts that the Sudan’s’ Embassy in Madrid has one bank account in (Sabadell) Bank, which is still open and has not been frozen, while all the embassy’s bank accounts were closed in previous years due to the US economic sanctions imposed on Sudan. Based on that the Ministry of Foregoing Affairs indicated that the embassy had no choice but to open a so-called (treasury account) after prior consultation with the Foreign Ministry  and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, in order to enable it to carry out its routine duties.

The statement stressed that the Sudan’s Embassy in Madrid or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs headquarter did not receive any notice from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs stating that the aforementioned account was frozen, according to the newspaper.

The statement pointed out that the Foreign Ministry has started making immediate arrangements to communicate with the relevant Spanish authorities through the Sudan’s Embassy in Madrid to find out the facts related to the allegations of freezing an account belonging to the Government of Sudan, according to the newspaper’s news.

The statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed that the newspaper should have, as it has always been, to communicate with the relevant department in the ministry to complete the relevant information so that it does not fall into the trap of unconfirmed information.