Complicit Dossier

Financial enablers and gatekeepers · person (Finance Minister; JEM leader) · Sudan

Gebreil (Gibril) Ibrahim

جبريل إبراهيم – وزير المالية ورئيس حركة العدل والمساواة

  • Allied force or mobilisation network
  • Grade A: Official recordStrongest record: official record
  • Sanctioned byUS
  • 2 documented ties · 2 steps from the SAF

Also recorded as: Gibril Ibrahim MOHAMED; Jibril IBRAHIM; FEDIEL, Gebreil Ibrahim Mohamed; Gibril Ibrahim Mohamed; Jibril Ibrahim; Gebreil Ibrahim Mohamed FEDIEL; Gebreil Ibrahim Mohamed Fediel; Gibril Ibrahim (Minister of Finance and Economic Planning); …

Finance minister of the SAF-led government and JEM chairman. Stated that war financing is the first spending priority (STPT); confirmed in April 2024 that gold from government-held areas still went to Dubai; announced cancellation of the Abu Amama port deal (Nov 2024).

Response

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

Records

4

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

Grade A: Official record

Gibril Ibrahim (Minister of Finance and Economic Planning)

2021 to present

Finance minister of the SAF-led government and JEM chairman. Stated that war financing is the first spending priority (STPT); confirmed in April 2024 that gold from government-held areas still went to Dubai; announced cancellation of the Abu Amama port deal (Nov 2024).

Response
No response located in the sources reviewed.
Sanctions
US OFAC SDN (E.O. 14098) 2025-09-12 - Treasury cites JEM's fighters and collaboration with the Iranian government, including travel to Tehran in Nov 2024.
  1. 1US Treasury, 'Treasury Sanctions Sudanese Islamist Actors to Counter Regional Instability and Support for Iran' · home.treasury.gov · 12 Sep 2025
  2. 2OFAC SDN list (XML), snapshot checked 2026-10-03 · sanctionslistservice.ofac.treas.gov · 3 Oct 2026
  3. 3Sudan Transparency and Policy Tracker (STPT), 'Fueling Sudan's War: How Gold Exports and Smuggling Are Prolonging the Conflict' · sudantransparency.org · 16 Oct 2024
  4. 4Chatham House, 'Gold and the war in Sudan' (Soliman & Baldo) · chathamhouse.org · 25 Mar 2025
Grade C: Single source

Gibril Ibrahim (Finance Minister; leader, Justice and Equality Movement)

OFAC sanctioned him on 12 Sep 2025 as a Sudanese Islamist actor involved in the war; the US cites cooperation with Iran's government and a Nov 2024 visit to Tehran.

Why this grade
Press report of an official act. The primary record is cited in another record for this actor.
Response
No statement from Gibril Ibrahim or JEM in the article read; check for later responses.
Source
Sudan Tribune Arabic (independent, Paris-based)
  1. 1Sudan Tribune Arabic · sudantribune.net · 12 Sep 2025

NamesJEMIran

Grade C: Single source

Finance minister inspects Joint Force units with military commanders (own page, April 2025)

2025-04 to 2026-08

A page in the minister's name posted on 4 Apr 2025: 'accompanied by a high-level delegation of military leaders, I inspected the Joint Forces in the desert axis, to assess their readiness for the decisive battles to lift the siege of El Fasher'. The same page records visits to wounded fighters 'with a delegation of the leadership of the Justice and Equality Movement' (28 Jul and 15 Aug 2026).

›Research notes

Page has 363,000 followers and no verification badge; first-person posts consistent with the minister's public role. Grade C. Shows the finance minister acting as an armed-movement leader while in office.

  1. 1Facebook page in the name of Finance Minister Gebreil Ibrahim: inspection of the Joint Forces in the desert axis · facebook.com · 4 Apr 2025

NamesJoint ForceJEM

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

2 more records at grade C (single source) or D (unverified lead). Change “Evidence shown” to see them.

Checked against the document

2

Statements compared with the wording of the primary document.

Relationships

2

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Ownership and control · 2

Weapons, sites and other subjects

1

Recorded links to things, places, events and authorities rather than to organisations or people.

  • From United States (OFAC)

    sanctioned under E.O. 14098 · 2025-09-12

    Grade A: Official record

Sanctions listings

1

  • United States (OFAC)12 Sep 2025OFAC SDN UID 55422

    ›Stated reason

    Gebreil is Sudan’s Finance Minister and chairman of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), a Darfuri armed group with historical links to Hassan al Turabi, the architect of Sudan’s Islamist revolution. JEM has contributed thousands of its followers to fight the RSF, leading to the destruction of Sudanese towns and the deaths and displacement of thousands of Sudanese civilians. Additionally, Gebreil has collaborated with the Iranian Government with the intent of strengthening political and economic ties and traveled to Tehran last November. | Gebreil is being designated pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 14098, “Imposing Sanctions on Certain Persons Destabilizing Sudan and Undermining the Goal of a Democratic Transition,” for being a foreign person who is or has been a leader, official, senior executive officer, or member of the board of directors of JEM, an entity that has, or whose members have, been responsible for, or complicit in, or have directly or indirectly engaged in actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, or stability of Sudan relating to the tenure of such leader, official, senior executive officer, or member of the board of directors. home.treasury.gov

Geography

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

Based in
Sudan
Also named
Iran (2), United Arab Emirates (1)
Places
El Fasher, Abu Amama, Dubai, Tehran

Position in the network

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

Still connected to the SAF when only official records are counted.

›Possible links to investigate · 4