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Isabel dos Santos accuses PR of trying to neutralize her politically and admits possible candidacy for the presidency

On Wednesday, the businesswoman Isabel dos Santos accused the President, João Lourenço, of using justice in a personal and political persecution to neutralise it politically.

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"If we want to fight corruption in Angola we must look where it is" and "we cannot use the supposed fight against corruption selectively to neutralise what we think may be future political opponents", said Isabel dos Santos, in an interview on Wednesday evening with RTP, reacting to the seizure of her assets by the judicial authorities, decreed in a preventive manner.

Isabel dos Santos claims to be the target of "political and personal persecution" by the judiciary, by indication of the current leadership of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).

The aim of the fight against corruption, announced by President João Lourenço, is to target "people who may enter the political field in the future and may represent some influence or popularity within the MPLA itself," said the businesswoman, who did not refuse political ambitions.

"I have a great sense of duty towards Angola. I will do everything I have to do to defend and provide the services to my land and to my country", she declared, admitting that "it is possible" to run for President of the country.

"[My] father left a great political legacy in Angola. It is a legacy that I and many Angolans would like to see respected," she justified in an interview with RTP.

The businesswoman also said that she was waiting to be called by the Portuguese courts and the Bank of Portugal to clarify the suspicions of money laundering that would be at the origin of the money that led to the purchase of BPN, today Eurobic.

"I want to believe that Portuguese justice is real justice and that it works, and that there is a rule of law in Portugal," the businesswoman said.

Isabel dos Santos added that she is being persecuted for having been at the helm of the oil company Sonangol and for having tried to change the company's internal procedures, which "were very opaque", particularly on the issue of selling oil abroad, from the 'trading' office in London.

"There is no will to fight corruption," he said, commenting on the fact that Carlos Saturnino, the same manager who, according to Isabel dos Santos, was the last person responsible for a case that left Sonangol in bankruptcy, with debts of 20 billion dollars, had been appointed as its successor.

"Sonangol was a state within a state" and "all the boards of directors prior to mine were appointed by the former", creating an "opaque system" of account control, he summarized.

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