Angola: Isabel dos Santos accuses President Lourenço of ‘carrying out a plot’ to seize her assets
Isabel Dos Santos, daughter of Angola’s former president José Eduardo dos Santos has filed a complaint in a London court against President João Lourenço, according to reports.
Once considered the richest woman on the continent, Dos
Santos has accused the Angola President of ''conspiracy to seize her assets.''
Through the services of a private intelligence agency known
as Black Cube, the former chair of Sonangol national oil company, is reported
to have gone great lengths to provide evidence in support of her claim.
The agency is reported to have secret recordings of several
high-ranking Angolan officials.
The recordings reportedly contain proof that there is a
group within the Angolan government whose aim is ‘’designed to coordinate a
campaign to seize her assets.''
In her complaint, Dos Santos particularly cited supposed
pressures on the judicial system, while affirming that the infamous ‘’Luanda
leaks’’, which revealed the presumed embezzlement of funds by her, were in fact
an attack by the government.
At the heart of this battle is the control of Isabel Dos
Santos' stake in Unitel, the large private telecom company in this Central
African nation.
Luanda froze Dos Santos' assets claiming that she built the
empire by embezzling state resources.
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