“There has been a full and absolute willingness of the engineer Isabel dos Santos, through her lawyers, to keep in constant contact with the courts and the processes existing in the various countries, so the claim of the Attorney General's Office is manifestly unjustified. Angola to issue an international arrest warrant, ”said the source, in a response sent to Lusa.
On Thursday, the attorney general, Helder Pitta Grós, admitted the possibility of moving, "in coordination with the Portuguese judicial entities", to issue an arrest warrant against businesswoman Isabel dos Santos, investigated for money laundering .
“We have been working in tune with the Portuguese authorities, all the work that the last few days have been made public is a work that is being done in full harmony between Angola and Portugal at the level of the judicial entities, and if by chance there is a need to we reach that point [issuing a warrant] together we will see how to proceed, ”he said.
According to a source linked to the businesswoman, this intention is, however, “a maneuver of media entertainment aimed at diverting the attention of public opinion to the procedural and legal abuses that Angolan justice has committed” and that “run over” constitutional law access to a fair process.
Isabel dos Santos is being investigated in Angola in the context of civil and criminal proceedings, in which the State claims values in excess of five billion dollars.
