In a statement that may help the defense of one of his sons who is standing trial for money laundering, Angolan President, Jose Eduardo dos Santos…
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Dos Santos’ family are in the spotlight after his billionaire daughter was indicted in Angola last month for a host of high-level financial crimes in the oil-rich nation.
The public prosecutor’s office requested the seizure of bank accounts belonging to Isabel dos Santos as part of a request for international judicial cooperation by the Angolan authorities.
Dos Santos said the Luanda Leaks were based on “emails obtained criminally via hacking to create a misleading narrative”
“The (former) President of the Republic… had no direct participation in diamond sales,” ex-president dos Santos stated in a letter to Angola’s parliament and constitutional court.
The court order dated December 23 said the asset freezes applied to Isabel dos Santos, her husband, Sindika Dokolo, and Mário Filipe Moreira Leite da Silva.
The money, including 3 billion dollars stolen from the sovereign wealth fund, had been siphoned off by corrupt government officials
Angola recorded an outbreak of polio this week after almost a decade without cases of the paralysing viral disease, the government said. The highly infectious condition…
Isaias Samakuva, 73, took the helm of UNITA in 2003, a year after its founder Jonas Savimbi was killed in battle
Nicknamed “Tchize”, Welwitschia was elected to parliament in 2008 and joined the central committee of the ruling MPLA in 2016