The businesswoman, whose suspicious financial schemes were exposed in a mega journalistic investigation known as 'Luanda Leaks', complains of being the victim of legal harassment in order to be neutralized politically and claims that she has not had the opportunity to defend herself or to have been heard before being told. the assets were seized.
Luaty Beirão, who spoke on the sidelines of the "Youth in Action" colloquium, promoted this Wednesday, in Luanda, by the Center for Studies for Good Governance, asked if Isabel dos Santos should answer about the suspicions before the Angolan justice, and if the Santos family is in a position to receive fair treatment, he said: "If not, it's their fault, because they created this justice system that nobody trusts".
“I realize that they don't trust, but who created it? Who encouraged it? What we have today is the result of what they did. At the time, it helped them, now it is worrying", he declared to Lusa, considering that José Eduardo dos Santos' family must come to defend themselves against the accusations and use whatever arguments they have.
The activist stressed that he does not advocate selective or partial justice and that is why the documents made public, through ‘Luanda Leaks’, help to demystify "the boast" that Isabel dos Santos insists on sharing in her interviews.
"She always insists that it is a political persecution, a witch hunt and that there will not be a fair trial. I cannot say that yes, I do not yet fully trust, I want to believe that we will be there, but it would be false if I said that the system of justice is already fully reliable", admitted the musician.
For Luaty Beirão, what is happening had to happen since Isabel dos Santos and her family "were mainly responsible for the state the country is in" and the high levels of corruption.
"It was they who promoted this, who let it happen, sometimes officially and institutionally", so "it is not surprising that they are the first to be targeted", said Luaty Beirão, one of the 17 activists in the well-known 15 + 2 process, arrested in 2015 and condemned, in 2016, for preparatory acts of a rebellion and association of criminals.
According to Luaty Beirão, if it weren't for the Santos family that had been hit "they would say that they only went after the small ray", arguing: "We have to go to the sharks".
On some "incongruencies" in the fight against corruption, namely with regard to the triumvirate that gravitated around the family of José Eduardo dos Santos (generals Dino and Kopelipa and ex-vice president Manuel Vicente), he considered that the latter is " clearly to be protected".
"There are political motivations, I believe that Manuel Vicente is helping to catch others, if it is justified on a moral level, no, it should also be punished and, if there is evidence, it should also be taken to the courts, but it is a matter of each time, because it is not possible to treat everyone at the same time, "said the activist, stressing that he wants" everyone to pay for what he has done over the years of mess".
For the 'rapper', the fight against corruption can only be minimally successful if it is accompanied by openness and a lot of transparency.
"Unfortunately, these people who have governed and continue to govern the country until now are not used to being transparent, so it is also an exercise for them. We as a society must persist and insist for this transparency to come into existence", he said.
And he stressed: "There is not yet and when there is no transparency there are doubts and there are these reticences and skepticisms and even some pessimism, but to say that there is nothing to happen, that it is all theater, I at least think it is unfair".
Luaty Beirão stressed that there cannot be only criticism, but it is necessary to recognize the efforts, because for him the most important thing is to feel that "there is an intention to walk to a different place". "Whether it will be successful or not, it is another story", he said.
"That intention I feel exists. I think we have to occupy our spaces as citizens and stop just pointing fingers, we are 30 million, it cannot be just the President of the Republic, it cannot be just the same decision makers always determining the direction of the country", advocated the activist.
