SOMBRA

SOMBRA is a global criminal organization featured in Season 3 of Criminal Case. The organization has an evil alignment against The Bureau as the story progresses.

Killing Spring
SOMBRA was first brought to light when Carmen Martinez and the player found a wad of cash sent from The Sword, the murderer of the Bureau's Chief Ripley, to Hamza Boussefi, the victim in their recent murder investigation. As Armand Dupont could not figure out what "SOMBRA" meant, the team decided to talk to the victim's wife, Fatima.

Fatima explained that Hamza had refused to help The Sword at first, but ended up obeying orders when the money became tempting. The Sword had encouraged the victim to be a protest leader and use all means necessary to overthrow Sultan Mahmoud I. Unfortunately, the widow had never heard of SOMBRA, but she had told the team that Hamza used to meet The Sword at the oasis, prompting them to head there.

Carmen and the player found another wad of cash with The Sword's symbol on it, and they collected a grayish substance from the note for more clues. They discovered that the substance came from the Nile River, giving the team the lead that would take them to Egypt to discover more about The Sword and SOMBRA.

I Spy a Mummy
Jack Archer and the player opted to check out a pyramid once they arrived in Egypt to find some more clues about SOMBRA. Instead, they found the mummified body of Afif Wahab. The team found more than meets the eye when they discovered that Asal Hawaa, a Mossad agent disguised as a belly dancer, had been spying on the victim, believing him to be a SOMBRA agent, though this was yet to be proven. However, Asal refused to share more information about SOMBRA with the team throughout the remainder of the investigation.

After the murder investigation was closed, Ingrid Bjorn told the team to interrogate Asal and get her to share the information with them about SOMBRA. Asal initially refused, but she was willing to share information if the team passed a trust test - they had to find a gadget of hers that she had left in the tomb.

The team had passed the trust test with help from Elliot Clayton, who had identified the spy gear they found to be hers. Asal explained that SOMBRA was an international crime organization, structured in separate cell groups around the globe. They also incorporate existing groups into the organization in order to strengthen themselves and get branches on every continent. The Bureau had already taken down SOMBRA's European branch, the Promethians. From that information alone, Jack concluded that The Sword had wanted to unite all the rebel leaders together to form a branch in the Sahara Region.

Later, Jonah Karam had entered Bureau Headquarters and helped the team set up a plan to reveal The Sword. The team would dress up as rebels and buy firearms from arms dealer Seamus Cummings, who had ties to SOMBRA. After making the deal, Seamus would inform The Sword of their appearance. Elliot, with Jonah's help, set up the meeting and revealed that the meeting was to take place in Dubai. With that said, the team boarded the plane to head to Dubai to set up the trap.

Known Affiliates
Note: Due to the vagueness in the term "affiliates", the list above states confirmed members of SOMBRA and the people who willingly helped SOMBRA.

Murders Committed

 * All murders committed by the Promethian Cult.
 * Adam Hassan - The Sword manipulated Christy Mathis by providing her the murder weapon via Rafid Habadi.
 * Anir Aznag - Murdered by The Sword after Anir brought Andrew Stern per the orders of the former.
 * Andrei Beloglazov - Hired Tsetseg to murder the victim after he finished working on SOMBRA's satellite as he was considered a loose end.
 * Vitaly Borodin - Manipulated Yelena Tereshkova into killing the victim by the COSMORUS mole shortly before they launched a satellite that would control all other satellites.