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Hélder Pitta Grós meets this Thursday with Portuguese counterpart

The Attorneys General of the Republic (PGR) of Angola and Portugal will meet this Thursday in Lisbon, the day after the Angolan justice announced the opening of a criminal case against businesswoman Isabel dos Santos, for mismanagement and diversion of funds from the state oil company Sonangol.

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Hélder Pitta Grós arrives in Lisbon from Luanda and will meet with Lucília Gago at 3 pm, says the Portuguese PGR.

The International Investigative Journalism Consortium (ICIJ) unveiled more than 715,000 files on Sunday, under the name 'Luanda Leaks', detailing financial schemes by Isabel dos Santos and her husband, Sindika Dokolo, which will have allowed money to be withdrawn from the treasury Angolan public, using tax havens.

Businesswoman Isabel dos Santos said she was the victim of an orchestrated political attack to neutralize her and maintained that the allegations made against her are "completely unfounded", promising "to fight in international courts" to "restore the truth".

The Angolan justice granted, at the end of December, a preventive precautionary measure that arrested the assets of the businesswoman in Angola, but part of the empire of Isabel dos Santos extends to Portugal, with direct and indirect stakes in the oil company Galp, in the bank Eurobic, the telecommunications operator Nos and the engineering company Efacec.

According to the investigation of this group of media, including Expresso and SIC, Isabel dos Santos set up a concealment scheme that allowed her to divert over 100 million dollars to a company based in Dubai and which had as the only declared shareholder the Portuguese Paula Oliveira, a friend of Isabel dos Santos and administrator of the operator NOS.

The data disclosed also involve the businesswoman's personal lawyer, the Portuguese Jorge Brito Pereira (partner of Uría Menéndez, Proença de Carvalho's office), the chairman of Efacec's board of directors, Mário Leite da Silva (CEO of Fidequity, a company with head office in Lisbon owned by Isabel dos Santos and her husband), and Sarju Raikundalia (former financial director of Sonangol).

On Wednesday, Helder Pitta Grós said that the inquiry process, opened following a complaint by the chairman of the board of directors of the oil company, Carlos Saturnino, has already been turned into a criminal case and some people have been accused: the businesswoman and daughter of ex-President, Isabel dos Santos; Sarju Raikundalia, former financial director of Sonangol: Mário Leite da Silva, manager of Isabel dos Santos and chairman of the Board of Directors of BFA; Paula Oliveira, friend of Isabel dos Santos and administrator of NOS and Nuno Ribeiro da Cunha.

According to the PGR, everyone is outside Angola and, in a first stage, they will be notified of their status as an accused.

"At the moment, the concern is to notify and make them come to justice voluntarily," added the Attorney General, adding that if this objective is not achieved, the PGR will resort to the legal instruments at its disposal, including the issuing of warrants. international capture systems.

The investigation also reveals that, in less than 24 hours, Sonangol's account at EuroBic Lisboa, a bank of which Isabel dos Santos is the main shareholder, was emptied and left with a negative balance the day after the resignation of the oil company's businesswoman.

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