Complicit Dossier

Financial enablers and gatekeepers · foreign commercial bank · UAE

Dubai Islamic Bank (shareholder in Bank of Khartoum)

  • Commercial or professional counterparty
  • Grade B: CorroboratedStrongest record: corroborated
  • 2 documented ties · 2 steps from the SAF

Also recorded as: DIB

Significant shareholder in Bank of Khartoum (Chatham House). Listed for structural context only; no allegation of support to the SAF.

Response

No response is recorded. Named parties have not yet been asked for comment.

Records

2

Each record carries its own grade. A grade describes the source for that record, not the actor.

Grade B: Corroborated

Dubai Islamic Bank (shareholder in Bank of Khartoum)

2005 to present

Significant shareholder in Bank of Khartoum (Chatham House). Listed for structural context only; no allegation of support to the SAF.

Response
No response located in the sources reviewed.
Sanctions
None found in OFAC SDN / EU / UK lists checked 2026-10-03
  1. 1Chatham House, 'Gold and the war in Sudan' (Soliman & Baldo) · chathamhouse.org · 25 Mar 2025
  2. 2Al Jazeera, 'Drones, gold, and threats: Sudan's war raises regional tensions' · aljazeera.com · 13 May 2025

NamesBank of Khartoum

Grade D: Unverified lead

Listed as historical 74.28% shareholder of Sudanese Free Zones and Markets (unverified)

historical, undated

The Ministry of Finance inventory relayed by C4ADS has a historical row giving 'The Islamic Bank of Dubai' (بنك دبى الاسلامى) 74.28% of Sudanese Free Zones and Markets (reg. 8323). No other source for this was found and the dataset shows no current shareholders for the company.

Response
No response sought by this desk; none found in the sources read.
›Research notes

Single unconfirmed dataset row; could be a data-entry or translation error. Context only.

  1. 1C4ADS, Sudan State-Controlled Enterprise Explorer (Ministry of Finance inventory and Regime Dismantlement Committee records, 2019-2021 snapshot; machine-translated labels). Local extract: raw/c4ads_sce_nodes.json, raw/c4ads_sce_edges.json · sudansce.c4ads.org · 2022

2 more records below grade A (corroborated, single-source or unverified). Change “Evidence shown” to see them.

1 more record at grade C (single source) or D (unverified lead). Change “Evidence shown” to see it.

1 more record at grade D (unverified lead). Change “Evidence shown” to see it.

Relationships

2

← means the other party acts on this one; → means this one acts on the other.

Ownership and control · 2

2 more relationships below grade A (corroborated, single-source or unverified). Change “Evidence shown” to see them.

Geography

Tags come from the recorded jurisdiction and from place names in the records. Coordinates on the map are approximate.

Based in
United Arab Emirates
Places
Khartoum, Dubai

Position in the network

Derived by analysing the documented relationships. Nothing in this section is a finding.

Connected to the SAF through official or corroborated records.

›Possible links to investigate · 1