Hemedti’s Dubai Assets Expose RSF-UAE Ties

New disclosures about Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo’s Dubai property holdings sharpen attention on the financial architecture surrounding RSF. The Sentry’s investigation, built on leaked UAE property data and corroborating records, maps asset transfers, ownership layers, and revenue flows that intersect with individuals sanctioned by the United States.

According to The Sentry, Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti, purchased three apartments in Dubai’s eastern suburbs in March 2020.

The properties were located near the UAE’s al-Minhad military air base. While originally acquired in his own name, the apartments were sold in July 2022 to Prodigious Real Estate Management Supervision Services, a UAE-registered company.

The Sentry linked Prodigious to Abo Zer Abdelnabi Habiballa Ahmmed, also known as Abozer Habib. In 2025, the US Treasury sanctioned Habib as the owner of the Capital Tap group, which authorities said had long-standing connections to the RSF, including companies that supplied funding and military equipment.

The report estimated the value of the apartments at just under $1m, with additional Prodigious-owned commercial property valued at about $670,000.

Former owners of Prodigious included Emirati businessman Naser Helal Abdulla Helal Alhammadi and Sudanese national Islam Badreldine Mohamed Abdalla. Both previously owned companies within the Capital Tap group.

The Sentry said Prodigious, Habib, Alhammadi, and Abdalla did not respond to requests for comment.

Between 2023 and 2025, Prodigious earned at least $80,000 per year in rental income from the portfolio. Tenants were described as expatriates working in Dubai who were unaware of any connection between their landlords and Sudan’s conflict.

The properties were identified through leaked Dubai property records from 2020 and 2022 first obtained by the Centre for Advanced Defense Studies. The Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project assisted in confirming Prodigious’s current ownership details.

The investigation situates the Dubai holdings within a broader Dagalo-linked business ecosystem. Al-Junaid, a company sanctioned by the US for financing activities connected to the RSF, has been associated with gold exports from mines in South Darfur’s Songo area and North Darfur’s Jebel Amer region to Dubai’s gold souk.

Additional UAE-based firms, including Glow Gold and AZ Gold, were cited as participating in this trade chain.

The Sentry described routes through Chad, South Sudan, and Kenya for gold originating in RSF-controlled territory. International trade statistics were noted as recording a “massive surge” in gold flows into the UAE from Kenya.

Military intelligence sources have revealed in the past that gold is a major source of fund in financing the war, including paying for RSF mercenaries from Chad, Niger, Central African Republic, South Sudan, and Colombia.

Previous investigations and media reports have exposed the link between UAE and RSF. Satellite imagery from Aug-Sept 2025 indicated heavy UAE-linked IL-76 cargo aircraft activity at Kufra Airport in southeastern Libya, tied to alleged arms transfers and the movement of foreign fighters connected to the RSF.

In Jan 2026, investigative reporting highlighted UAE-linked Antonov AN-124 flights between Abu Dhabi, Israel, Bahrain, and Ethiopia, outlining what was described as a supply network intersecting with regional rivalries over Sudan’s war.