Financial difficulties arose after Portuguese judge Carlos Alexandre decided to seize the accounts Isabel dos Santos has in Portugal. Days after the judge decreed the measure, the businesswoman warned that something like this could happen.
Faced with the delay in resolving the backlog of payments, the businesswoman blamed the Portuguese justice: in statements to the newspaper Expresso, Isabel dos Santos' official source revealed that "the justice has already been asked to unblock the payment of salaries, rents and taxes", however, "they are still waiting".
The Portuguese Attorney General's Office, contacted by Expresso, stated that the possibility of "making payments of the nature of those referred to, namely salaries and tax debts, is evaluated when requested".
However, the same newspaper said that the Public Prosecutor's Office did not confirm receipt of the request to unfreeze the accounts.
