Complicit Dossier

Procurement and supply networks · foreign state-owned defence company

'Poly (POLY)' Chinese company (as written; presumably Poly Technologies / China Poly Group)

  • Reported or alleged link, not established
  • Grade A: Official recordStrongest record: official record
  • 2 documented ties · 2 steps from the SAF

On 6 Sept 2024 in Beijing, in Burhan's presence, DIS director-general Mirghani Idris signed an agreement with 'Poly (POLY)' for 'strategic cooperation in vital and defence fields'. The official text says the contracts will 'contribute to sustaining defence and security readiness'.

Response

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

Records

1

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Grade A: Official record

'Poly (POLY)' Chinese company (as written; presumably Poly Technologies / China Poly Group) – strategic defence cooperation agreement with DIS

On 6 Sept 2024 in Beijing, in Burhan's presence, DIS director-general Mirghani Idris signed an agreement with 'Poly (POLY)' for 'strategic cooperation in vital and defence fields'. The official text says the contracts will 'contribute to sustaining defence and security readiness'.

Fact-check
No Chinese statement located. Not fact-checked.
Source
official SAF-side (Transitional Sovereignty Council media office channel; presents as official, signed 'إعلام مجلس السيادة الانتقالي', active since 2020; not cross-verified from a government website)

Relationships

2

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

Political ties · 2

  • From Mirghani Idris Suleiman

    signed strategic cooperation agreement as DIS director-general (company name as written in the official post) · 6 Sept 2024

    Grade A: Official record
  • To Defense Industries System (DIS)

    agreement for "strategic cooperation in vital and defence fields" (company name as written in the official post) · 6 Sept 2024

    Grade A: Official record

Geography

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

Based in
China (inferred)
Places
Beijing

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 · 3
  • Abdel Fattah al-Burhan hypothesis

    No direct tie is documented. Basis: shared intermediary; named in the other actor's record (via Mirghani Idris Suleiman).

  • Baykar hypothesis

    No direct tie is documented. Basis: shared intermediary (via Mirghani Idris Suleiman, Defense Industries System (DIS)).

  • Zadna International Company for Investment Ltd hypothesis

    No direct tie is documented. Basis: shared intermediary (via Mirghani Idris Suleiman, Defense Industries System (DIS)).