According to a note from the Criminal Investigation Service (SIC), to which Lusa had access, the 54-year-old Angolan woman was detained in Malanje province, and will answer for the crimes of fraud for fraud, in a competition with the falsification of documents, criminal association and fraud in obtaining credit to BPC, the largest national public financial institution.
The SIC spokesperson, Chief Superintendent Manuel Halaiwa, told Lusa that 20 victims have been identified to date, with credits of 43.2 million kwanzas each and with late payment interest in the order of 51.1 million kwanzas. kwanzas each, without any debt installment paid.
Manuel Halaiwa said that SIC had been investigating the case since 2020, following a complaint from one of the victims.
"An injured citizen made the complaint, in 2020, when she discovered that she had, in addition to a private account at BPC, a company account, with a credit with interest on late payments. It was from there that the entire investigation began", he stressed. .
With a business in the area of cold cuts, the woman, who since 2014 was in Brazil traveling to the country to control the business she had in several provinces, used an employee to collect the identity cards of other people, fish traders, with promises of obtaining credit to increase sales.
"Using identity cards, she created forged licenses for fictitious companies, opened business accounts and through these accounts asked for bank credits," she explained.
In this scheme, the accused had the help of two other high-ranking BPC employees, who were also defendants in the process, and all the credits were granted and handled by them.
In the course of the investigation, various means were seized from the victim in the provinces of Luanda and Malanje, namely houses, a cold complex with 16 cold rooms, a shipyard, 13 vehicles of different brands and top-of-the-range models.
In addition to Luanda and Malanje, the accused has business in the provinces of Uíje, Lunda Norte, Zaire and Cabinda.
