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From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Tue Dec 14 2010 - 11:54:31 EST
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Sudanese
businessman sues Somalia’s parliament speaker over $8 million loan
Published: December 14, 2010 11:36 a.m. EST
The businessman is believed to have close links with some officials in the
Somali government such as Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the president of
Somalia.
Abdi Hajji Hussein - AHN News Correspondent
Khartoum, Sudan (AHN) - A Sudanese businessman has filled a lawsuit against
Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adam, the speaker of Somalia's transitional federal
parliament.
Sadiq Mohammed Ahmed demanded the speaker pay $8 million, what the suit
claimed to be the businessman’s commission for mediating a deal between the
Somali government and Sudan to print Somali currency.
The two nations signed the contract in Khartoum in April 2009, according to
*Al Ahram Al-youm* newspaper in Sudan. Somalia had hoped the agreement would
help the country deal with inflation and help stabilize its rocky economy.
The businessman is believed to have close links with some officials in the
Somali government such as Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the president of
Somalia.
He is said to have visited Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, when the Somali
president was in charge of the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia in
Eritrea.
The businessman claimed he had lent the Somali parliament speaker $8
million.
No comments were immediately available from the transitional government
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