The information was provided this Tuesday to Lusa by the spokesman of the Attorney General of the Republic of Angola, Alvaro João, who confirmed that the son of Carlos São Vicente is also accused in the same lawsuit as the Portuguese-Angolan businessman.
Last Saturday, Ivo São Vicente's mother, Irene Neto, said, in an interview with Lusa agency, that the son of the Portuguese-Angolan businessman was constituted accused, but did not give details about the accusation. Irene Neto also said that the son did not intend to present himself to the Angolan justice, "unless they come to get him".
Although the defendant is in Portugal, "there are judicial mechanisms that make it easier for someone who is absent, especially in a country with whom we have judicial cooperation in criminal matters, to be able to respond at any time without the process becoming stagnant waiting for him to return. There are cooperation mechanisms that facilitate steps in one country and another ", explained Álvaro João.
Asked if Ivo São Vicente could be heard in Portugal, the PGR spokesman said that steps are being taken in this regard and "probably, it will happen".
Carlos São Vicente's family has some accounts frozen by the courts, despite the appeal he filed last year to lift the measure. According to the order that ordered the preventive arrest of businessman Carlos São Vicente, he allegedly carried out "an illegal scheme" that injured the oil company Sonangol by more than 900 million dollars.
The businessman, who between 2000 and 2016 simultaneously served as risk management director at Sonangol and chairman of the Board of Directors of the company AAA Seguros, a company in which the oil company was initially the sole shareholder, will have carried out in that period "a scheme for illegal appropriation of shareholdings" of the insurer and "income and profits produced by the system" of insurance and reinsurance in the oil sector, thanks to the company's monopoly.
The PGR spokesman also told Lusa that the Angolan justice is also dealing with the extradition process of Abel Cosme, former chairman of the Board of Directors of TCUL / Empresa de Transportes Colectivos Urbanos de Luanda, who was arrested in Portugal on suspicion the practice of crimes of money laundering, corruption, embezzlement of state funds and criminal association.
