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Isabel dos Santos, Africa’s richest woman has been charged with fraud which took place during her stewardship of state-owned oil firm Sonangol.
Angola’s billionaire former first daughter Isabel dos Santo’s has been charged in the southern African country with money laundering and mismanagement during her stewardship of state-owned oil firm Sonangol, the Angolan prosecutor general announced on Wednesday.

Hundreds of thousands of files about dos Santo’s were obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and released by several news organisations on Sunday, dubbed the “Luanda Leaks”. They allege the daughter of ex-president José Eduardo dos Santos plundered state coffers to build her fortune, estimated at $2.1 billion (€1.82 billion).

“Isabel dos Santo’s is accused of mismanagement and embezzlement of funds during her tenure at Sonangol and is thus charged in the first instance with the crimes of money laundering, influence peddling, harmful management…forgery of documents, among other economic crimes,” prosecutor general Helder Pitta Gros told a news conference late Wednesday.

Portuguese news agency Lusa quoted Pitta Gros as saying that dos Santos had not directly shown any interest in collaborating with Angolan authorities. “At the moment, the concern is to notify and get them to voluntarily come to justice,” he added.

Dos Santos, who was chairwoman of Sonangol from June 2016 to November 2017 and amassed her fortune during her father’s decades-long presidency, could not immediately be reached for comment but has denied wrongdoing.

Investigations were opened after her successor Carlos Saturnino raised the alarm about “irregular money transfers” and other dodgy procedures.

Dubbed Africa’s richest woman, dos Santos is accused of using her father’s backing to plunder state funds from the oil-rich but poor African country, and of building her business empire by moving the money abroad with the help of Western firms, including transfers between Angola and Dubai.

Pitta Gros said dos Santos was among five suspects, all of whom were currently residing abroad.

Stakes held in major Portuguese companies

In Portugal, dos Santos holds significant stakes in several major firms including NOS and oil firm Galp Energia. Soon after the Angolan prosecutor’s announcement, dos Santos announced her decision to sell her stake in Portuguese bank Eurobic, the small lender said on Wednesday.

Dos Santos is Eurobic’s main shareholder but the bank said she had decided to withdraw from its shareholding structure and sell her stake. In a statement sent to Reuters, Eurobic said the selling process of the 42.5% stake had already started and dos Santos’s decision was “final”.

A spokeswoman for Portugal’s public prosecutor’s office confirmed to Reuters that Angola’s Pitta Gros and Portugal’s attorney general, Lucilia Gago, will meet in Lisbon on Thursday. She did not say what they will discuss.

Frozen assets in Angola

She stopped living in Angola after her father, who ruled the country with an iron fist for nearly 40 years, stepped down in 2017 for his anointed successor João Lourenço.

Angolan authorities froze Isabel dos Santos’s assets in the African country in late December following allegations by prosecutors that she and her husband Sindika Dokolo had steered payments of more than $1 billion from state companies Sonangol and Sodiam to firms in which they held stakes. Dos Santos and Dokolo denied wrong doing.

https://www.france24.com/en/20200123-billionaire-isabel-dos-santos-daughter-angola-s-ex-president-charged-fraud

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Odikwa badt what a man can do, a woman can do it better

Kilode?

All the wealth she amassed as daughter of the president no do her. This woman's greed is out of this world. Diezani dey learn work where she dey

Damnnnnn niggarrr

"Investigations were opened after her successor Carlos Saturnino raised the alarm about “irregular money transfers” and other dodgy procedures."

Exactly!!! When they are in power them go dey misbehave.
We go soon know if buhari and his niggars were real niggarrrz when them dey power.
Just a matter of time.
May Allah give us a good successor after them buhari and his niggars leave office so that we go hear buhari scores. Whether he was corrupt or not

The present will always become the past

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What a man can do,a woman can also do better

Parading herself as Africa's richest woman after stealing billions, while millions of people in her country live on less than $2 per day.

Contact me for your Logo and business card design. Check my dp

Really?

Lol�

long overdue

Too much greed

There's no time you look the anus of a fowl without seeing shit.
Most billionaires are into one shady deal or the other from tax evasion to dealing on contrabands to prohibited firearms, to narcotics, to oil bunkery, to immigration and cheap labor racket, to over inflation of contract sums and kickbacks etc

I thought Alakija is the richest woman

I thought alakija was the richest woman in africa

Nice

Everybody be criminal

Allyson madueke on mind.....
She is running from her father's land. Let him come back home and face her count charges....

Corruption is unending in poor nations

Alakija

99 days for the thief............
Angola should come and import our Mr Integrity to help them fight kwarruption well well.
We will gladly dash them.

Please post a picture of the woman

Good

Hmmmmm

No. It long overdue.

Iheoforlex:
I thought alakija was the richest woman in africa

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Apart from Americans and Europeans who became stinking rich because of their ingenuity, most wealthy people are thieves

Modified

These guys didn't make money by stealing: Larry Page (Google), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Larry Ellison (Oracle), Bill Gates (Microsoft), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), etc.

End the senseless mentions