According to the newspaper Correio da Manhã, the banker's carte blanche will have arrived the day at João Lourenço decided to exonerate Isabel dos Santos da Sonangol. Thus, writes the newspaper, on 15 November 2017, Ribeiro da Cunha will have called Angola to approve the first transfer - worth 1.6 million dollars. On the same day, 11.9 million dollars was also transferred to the account of Matter Solutions - Isabel do Santos' company, based in Dubai.
The following day, the banker will have given the green light to three more transfers worth 38.1, 15.3 and 4.3 million dollars.
In less than two days, one of the oil company's accounts was close to zero: in total, 71.4 million dollars were withdrawn.
The suspicious financial movements were eventually denounced by Carlos Saturnino, who took the lead of the oil company on November 16, 2017. The Correio da Manhã said that in December of that year, Sonangol received the bank statement of the transfers and, although it had 60 days at its disposal to denounce any irregular movement, it did not make any statement.
After the 'Luanda Leaks' case, in which Isabel dos Santos is the central player, was revealed, the businesswoman abandoned the shareholder structure of Eurobic. There are already five interested in buying the 42.5 per cent of Angolan.
