Isabel dos Santos' response comes through her communications office, after the Angolan Attorney General's Office (PGR) denies allegations by the businesswoman who, on Tuesday, accused the Angolan justice system of using a false passport as evidence for arrest their bank accounts and holdings in companies.
The PGR contradicted Isabel dos Santos' version, according to which preventive seizure used as proof a counterfeit passport signed by the kung fu fighter Bruce Lee, who died, guaranteeing that the seizure "was not based on any identification document, but rather the documents that attested to the fear of dissipation of the assets ”and that the copy of the passport in question is included in the file because its authenticity was being investigated.
According to the PGR, the seizure of assets by Isabel dos Santos in Angola, was decreed as part of a precautionary measure, in a civil process, registered under No. 3301/2019-C, which contains information from the Embassy of Angola in Japan , noting that the said copy of passport was under investigation with the Migration and Foreigners Service (SME).
According to the PGR, several civil and criminal cases are running against Isabel dos Santos, in which the State claims values in excess of five billion dollars.
In a statement released this Thursday, the daughter of ex-President José Eduardo dos Santos insists that the only evidence of the “alleged asset dissipation” handed over to the Angolan Civil Court is based on a “false narrative” of an alleged sale of its stakes in Unitel to an alleged Arab citizen and an alleged investment abroad made by an Arab citizen who would be his representative in an investment of 10 million to 1 billion euros in Japan.
Isabel dos Santos also alleges that "the documents that attested to the fear of dissipation of the assets" and that appear in the records are "all false" and that she will demonstrate this, stating that the Angolan courts accepted documents in Japanese that were not even translated.
“Just because it accepted a series of totally forged documents, the Provincial Court, for reasons that do not qualify here, proved the emergence of the situation and ordered the arrest. Without proof of this danger of asset dissipation, no civil seizure could ever have been decreed ”, he argues.
It also states that the PGR “ordered” the decision of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Angola regarding the request for the seizure of assets in Portugal, “to deceive the Portuguese Justice”.
As for the alleged debt to the Angolan State, Isabel dos Santos questions why the amount initially claimed is 1.2 billion euros and has risen to 4.6 billion euros.
"To make it clear, the engineer Isabel dos Santos does not owe money to the Angolan State and there is no debt registered in any part of the General State Budget", the statement said.
The businesswoman points out that there are several falsified documents in the civil process in Angola and claims to be unaware of the content of the criminal proceedings "kept secret until today".
