The PGR statement was released after the businesswoman alleges that the decision to seize her assets was based on a forged passport and that the Angolan and Portuguese states have seized accounts and assets in an excessive amount, in excess of two billion euros of assets and companies.
The PGR maintains that the seizure of assets by Isabel dos Santos in Angola was decreed as part of a precautionary measure, in a civil lawsuit, which currently runs in the country.
In this civil process "there is information from the Angolan Embassy in Japan, noting that the said copy of passport was under investigation by the Migration and Foreigners Service (SME), precisely to verify its authenticity".
Isabel dos Santos accuses the Attorney General of making a "fraudulent use of the Angolan justice system", to seize her business assets, and appeals to the Portuguese justice, which decided to cooperate with Angola and executed several arrests in Portugal, so that, " in the light of this complaint and others that will follow, reassess these executions 'blindly' ".
According to the businesswoman, the State used as evidence to make the preventive seizure of assets "a grossly counterfeit passport", with the signature of the late kung-fu master and film actor Bruce Lee, a photo taken from the Internet, date of birth incorrect and use of English words, among other signs of forgery.
The passport in question was used as evidence in court by the Attorney General's Office to demonstrate that Isabel dos Santos intended to illegally export capital to Japan, claims the daughter of former President José Eduardo dos Santos.
The PGR states in the statement that the “periculum in mora” (danger of injury to the Law due to the delay in the decision) proved in the process was not based on any identification document, but on the documents that attested the fear of dissipation of the assets.
According to the PGR, the request for seizure of assets in Portugal, in the light of international judicial cooperation, was based on a decision by the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Angola, in the context of a process in which no copy of passport was made. .
The International Investigative Journalism Consortium revealed on January 19 more than 715 thousand files, under the name 'Luanda Leaks', which detail the alleged financial schemes of Isabel dos Santos and her husband, which will have allowed them to withdraw money from the public purse through of tax havens.
The businesswoman is accused in a criminal case that is running in Angola for alleged mismanagement and embezzlement of funds during her visit to Sonangol.
In addition to the seizure of bank accounts and shareholdings in Angola, holdings related to several companies in Portugal were also seized.
