KHARTOUM: Omar al-Bashir received $90 million in cash from Saudi royals, an investigator told a court at the opening of the deposed Sudanese strongman’s corruption trial.

The former president, who was forced from power by months of protests in April after 30 years in power, sat in a metal cage wearing a traditional white gown.

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