"When there is a need to use international cooperation we have to use all the legal instruments that exist and therefore Interpol, Europol and whatever is necessary we will use", told to Lusa Helder Pitta Grós.
So far, he assured that he has not used these police authorities: "At the moment, we have not yet done it", but "when it is necessary we will do it".
For the PGR, Angola "is at an early stage of investigation into the facts that have been revealed recently", referring to the suspicions of embezzlement by businesswoman Isabel dos Santos, revealed by an international consortium of journalists.
For this reason, "there has not yet been enough time for us to exploit everything", he said.
But "the focus is not alone" in the process involving businesswoman Isabel dos Santos, the PGR, which has been in Lisbon since Thursday, the day it met with its portuguese counterpart, Lucília Gago.
"We have many other processes at work. And some will even go to court sooner than the conclusion of this one", Pitta Grós considered.
He explained why cases like the one in progress, "due to their nature and complexity, the need to have their own means to work on it, mainly human, are not easy from one day to the next to be concluded and to be submitted to court".
"The means are never enough, because the people who incur in this practice of illicit are always much further ahead, so we can not keep up with them nor do we have the means, and as such, it is a constant struggle," he said.
That's why Hélder Pitta Grós admitted that the Attorney General's Office has been asking for support, even from technicians, from other countries in the area of investigation.
The judicial vacation, which will take place in March in the country, which ends up suspending the deadlines are, however, for the PGR an advantage that justice can have in this process.
"In practical terms they even occur at a good time for us. It gives us more time to prepare the main action, to be able to make a better structured action, better argued", because the holidays end up suspending the deadlines, said the attorney general.
On the other hand, Pitta Grós assured that justice is available to provide all the necessary data to other countries, namely Portugal, so that they can continue the investigations in the case known as 'Luanda Leaks'.
"We are available to provide all the data that is needed. There is no mechanism that can create obstacles to this," he said.
Despite the fight against the lack of means, the PGR pointed out that "in the last two years, from 2017 to here, we have had 10 times more cases than from 2012 to 2017".
"That is to say, in two years we have had 10 times more processes than in five years. So maybe that can say something," he said.
However, Pitta Grós noted that the figures arrived at in terms of what the state has been injured in the cases that had been investigated so far are completely outdated.
"The figures we had until last year were almost five billion dollars. But now, with all these revelations, this is very little (...) no longer corresponds to reality", said the attorney general.
