The information, to which Lusa had access, was transmitted this Thursday to BFA workers.
Mário Leite Silva is one of the portuguese facilitators of Isabel dos Santo's business involving suspicious financial schemes, revealed in the journalistic investigation known as 'Luanda Leaks'.
The Attorney General's Office announced on Wednesday that Isabel dos Santos was set up on charges of alleged mismanagement and embezzlement of funds during her time in Sonangol, as were some Portuguese citizens, including Mário Leite da Silva.
The Portuguese, the right-hand man of the daughter of the former President José Eduardo dos Santos assumed the post of President of BFA in January 2017, after the signature of the agreement for the purchase of 2 per cent of BFA by Unitel, being elected for the 2017-2019 triennium.
The manager was also the target, as was Isabel dos Santos and her husband, Sindika Dokolo, of the preventive seizure of holdings in companies and bank accounts decided in December by the Luanda Provincial Court.
On BFA's Board of Directors is also another of Isabel dos Santos's close managers, António Domingues, former chairman of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, as vice-chairman.
A position that was also occupied by Isabel dos Santos, according to the report and accounts for 2017, the year in which the General Meeting of Shareholders approved the appointment of the corporate bodies for the 2017-2019 triennium.
Jorge Brito Pereira, Isabel dos Santo's longstanding lawyer, is also a member of BFA's governing bodies in his capacity as chairman of the General Meeting's board and is also one of the business facilitators exposed by the 'Luanda Leaks' research.
On the other hand, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) appeared in the bank's most recent report as an external auditor, but the consultant announced, on Monday, that she had ceased her service contracts with companies controlled by the entrepreneur, following news from the International Research Journalism Consortium (ICIJ) based on over 715 thousand files.
Mário Leite da Silva replaced Fernando Ulrich on 5 January 2017, soon after the Banco Português de Investimento (BPI) completed the sale of 2 per cent of BFA to Unitel, with the operator now controlling the bank.
"As a result of this transfer, the holdings of Banco BPI and Unitel in BFA became 48.1 per cent and 51.9 per cent, respectively", reads the information sent by BPI on 5 January 2017 to the Securities Market Commission (CMVM).
As a consequence of the deal, Fernando Ulrich and José Pena do Amaral resigned as chairman and member of BFA's board of directors, respectively.
On 13 December 2016, at the second attempt, BPI's shareholders approved the partial sale of BFA, the latter losing control of the bank it founded at the end of the 1990s.
In September of that year, BPI's management, led by Artur Santos Silva and Fernando Ulrich, had proposed the sale of 2 per cent of BFA to Unitel, for 28 million euros, an operation presented as the "only solution" for BPI to comply with the European Central Bank's requirements to reduce exposure to the Angolan market, where Frankfurt understood that banking supervision is not equivalent to that of Europe.
