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Urbinveste denies responsibility for the eviction of Areia Branca

Urbinveste, a company linked to Isabel dos Santos, which has been associated with the displacement of about three thousand people for the development of an urban project in Luanda, denies responsibility for this intervention and says it is willing to help the families.

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The project, known as Marginal da Corimba, would have yielded Isabel dos Santos's company 500 million dollars, implying the expulsion of a fishing community that resided in a place known as Areia Branca. The case was released as part of the journalistic investigation known as 'Luanda Leaks'.

Urbinveste denies the news and says that the eviction action that was carried out on 1 June 2013 came in the wake of a work called 'Marginal de Sudoeste' that was in charge of the Brazilian company Odebrecht.

"The work called 'Southwest Marginal' was awarded to Odebrecht by the Angolan Government in 2010 and has no connection with the 'Marginal Corimba' project promoted by Urbinveste in 2016", the company stresses in a statement.

According to Urbinveste, the Areia Branca area 'was intervened by Odebrecht in 2012-2013 to build a road linking the Chicala area to Corimba along the existing marginal land".

As for the Marginal da Corimba, "it is a maritime embankment" where the land would be dredged and reclaimed from the sea, and on which a road would be built, a project "with no impact on existing land, no impact on existing populations, and no need for re-housing".

The company says that in June 2013, when the "Areia Branca" area was evicted, the Marginal da Corimba project did not exist, having been approved by the Angolan government, at the time led by José Eduardo dos Santos, Isabel dos Santos' father, only in 2016.

However, the Marginal Corimba project was cancelled and never built.

"It is therefore entirely false that Urbinveste has received hundreds of millions of dollars to participate in any plan to renovate the Areia Branca area," the statement continued, reinforcing that the "Southwest Marginal" and "Corimba Marginal" projects promoted by Isabel dos Santos' company are "totally different, promoted by different companies and to be implemented in different areas of the city of Luanda.

Urbinveste also declares itself "shocked and dismayed" at the way the eviction of the population was carried out and, although it guarantees not to have had any intervention, nor to be related to the work, it is willing to support the families that were subjected to this situation "for the benefit of Angolan society".

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