State-owned and co-opted commercial entities · company · Sudan
Also recorded as: سور العالمية للاستثمار; Sur International Investment - Qatari Armed Forces stake
Pre-war foreign military shareholder in a Sudanese defence-ministry company. No wartime activity documented.
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Pre-war foreign military shareholder in a Sudanese defence-ministry company. No wartime activity documented.
Already in first pass as grade C; repeated here because it is the only foreign armed-forces shareholder in the dataset.
2003 - 2019-2021 inventory
Sur 'was founded in 2003 by the Sudanese ministry of defence and Turkish investors with an aim to meet the military uniform needs of the Sudanese army'; the 'Qatari Armed forces joined the project in June 2013'. Its integrated military textile complex at Hasahisa (Gezira state) opened on 24 January 2016 and a new phase of the clothing factory was inaugurated on 8 January 2017 by Omar al-Bashir with the Qatari and Turkish defence ministers; products were to be exported to 'Qatar, Turkey, Kenya, Somalia and other countries'. Defence Turkey names Oktay Ercan as general manager in 2016. Ministry of Finance inventory (reg. 17410): Qatari armed-forces committee 30%, Saria Industrial Group 30%, Ministry of Defence 9.09% (40% in an older filing); the Turkish holder does not appear in the extracted rows, so about 31% of the current split is unaccounted for.
bianet (Türkiye, October 2024; read through a summariser, and the underlying article was blocked by a Turkish court) reports that Ercan left Sudan after the 2019 change of government amid corruption allegations and later co-founded Barer Holding in Istanbul, 70% owned by Qatar's defence-ministry company Barzan Holding. Those allegations are unverified here and should not be published without the original and a right of reply. A Turkish company named Sur Corporate Wear signed a US$13m uniform-factory deal with Nigeria's DICON in 2019 (law-firm notice); its relation to the Sudanese company is not documented. No wartime information on Sur was found. Registration number 17410 sits next to numbers issued in October 2001 (reg. 17423 is dated 17 October 2001 in the same inventory), which suggests the company was registered in 2001 rather than 2003; the founding year therefore needs checking.
Foreign (Qatar armed-forces) co-ownership of a Sudanese defence-sector enterprise; activity not described in the dataset.
NamesQatar
3 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.
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Ownership and control · 6
30% Shareholder of · latest in dataset (c.2019-2021)
30% Shareholder of · latest in dataset (c.2019-2021)
30% shareholder · 2019-2021 snapshot
30% shareholder; joined June 2013 · 2013 - 2019-2021 inventory
30% shareholder (as 'Saria Industrial Group') · 2019-2021 inventory
From Ministry of Defense of Sudan
9.09% shareholder (40% in older filing); co-founder 2003 · 2003 - 2019-2021 inventory
6 more relationships below grade A (corroborated, single-source or unverified). Change “Evidence shown” to see them.
1 more relationship at grade C (single source) or D (unverified lead). Change “Evidence shown” to see it.
Sur International Investment founded by Sudan's Ministry of Defence and Turkish investors to make army uniforms. fibre2fashion.com
Grade C: Single sourceQatari armed forces join Sur International Investment as shareholder and funder. fibre2fashion.com
Grade C: Single sourceSur Textile Mills military textile complex opened at Hasahisa by Omar al-Bashir, with Turkish and Qatari defence delegations. defenceturkey.com
Grade B: CorroboratedBashir, Qatar's Minister of State for Defence Affairs and Turkey's defence minister inaugurate a new phase of the Sur military and civilian clothing factory, 'jointly owned by Qatar, Sudan and Turkey'. qatar-tribune.com
Grade B: Corroborated4 more events below grade A (corroborated, single-source or unverified). Change “Evidence shown” to see them.
2 more events at grade C (single source) or D (unverified lead). Change “Evidence shown” to see them.
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Connected to the SAF through official or corroborated records. Ranks 20 in the file for how often it sits on the shortest documented chain between two others.
No direct tie is documented. Basis: named in the other actor's record; cited in the same source.
Sudan Master Technology / Giad Industrial Group hypothesis
No direct tie is documented. Basis: shared intermediary (via Saria Industrial Complex).
Atlas International Business LLC hypothesis
No direct tie is documented. Basis: shared intermediary (via Ministry of Defense of Sudan).