Complicit Dossier

Financial enablers and gatekeepers · Insurance company · Sudan

Sheikan Insurance and Reinsurance (Shiekan)

شيكان للتامين وإعادة التامين

  • Part of the SAF or state-controlled
  • Grade C: Single sourceStrongest record: single source
  • 7 documented ties · 2 steps from the SAF

Also recorded as: Sheikhan for Insurance and Reinsurance; Shiekan Insurance & Reinsurance Co

Founded and historically owned by military corporations; a shareholder of the SAF's bank. Current ownership not established. No wartime conduct documented.

The inventory holds three or four records for what is probably one insurer (Sheikhan for Insurance and Reinsurance; Sheikhan for Insurance; Sheikhan National Insurance and Reinsurance; Sheikan Insurance Company). Historical shareholders: Military Commercial Corporation 66.59%, Military Corporation for Transportation 33.29%, Military Insurance and Banking Corporation 0.12%. A current row shows Khartoum Trade and Navigation with 16.67% (that company is 99% owned by Ghani for Multiple Activities, itself half-owned by Shining Transport and Investment). Sheikan holds 1.56% of Omdurman National Bank, 1.12% of White Nile Sugar, 50% of Sudan Natural Gas 'Sona Gas' (reg. 43709), 0.1% of Shining Transport and Investment, and historically 1.94% of the National Petroleum Corporation. The company describes itself as established in 1983 and the largest takaful insurer in Sudan with almost half the market.

Response

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

Records

1

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

Grade C: Single source

Ownership and holdings

2019-2021 inventory (historical rows older)

The inventory holds three or four records for what is probably one insurer (Sheikhan for Insurance and Reinsurance; Sheikhan for Insurance; Sheikhan National Insurance and Reinsurance; Sheikan Insurance Company). Historical shareholders: Military Commercial Corporation 66.59%, Military Corporation for Transportation 33.29%, Military Insurance and Banking Corporation 0.12%. A current row shows Khartoum Trade and Navigation with 16.67% (that company is 99% owned by Ghani for Multiple Activities, itself half-owned by Shining Transport and Investment). Sheikan holds 1.56% of Omdurman National Bank, 1.12% of White Nile Sugar, 50% of Sudan Natural Gas 'Sona Gas' (reg. 43709), 0.1% of Shining Transport and Investment, and historically 1.94% of the National Petroleum Corporation. The company describes itself as established in 1983 and the largest takaful insurer in Sudan with almost half the market.

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

Single dataset: C4ADS's relay of the Sudanese Ministry of Finance inventory (2019-2021). 'Historical' rows are older filings; 'current' means current in that snapshot, not in 2026. English labels are machine translations. The current majority owner is not shown in the dataset. No register number in the dataset. No wartime reporting found (two Arabic searches returned nothing relevant).

  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. 2C4ADS, Breaking the Bank (report) · c4ads.org · Jun 2022
  3. 3Leading Edge Guides, Sudan 2016: Shiekan Insurance (sponsored interview with managing director) · leadingedgeguides.com · 2016
  4. 4Middle East Insurance Review, Sudan: Shiekan Insurance targets 50% growth by 2017 · meinsurancereview.com · 2015

NamesMilitary Commercial Corp.Shining TransportONB

1 more record below grade A (corroborated, single-source or unverified). Change “Evidence shown” to see it.

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

Relationships

8

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

Ownership and control · 8

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

2 more relationships at grade C (single source) or D (unverified lead). 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
Sudan
Places
Khartoum, Omdurman

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. Ranks 29 in the file for how often it sits on the shortest documented chain between two others.

›Possible links to investigate · 1