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Isabel dos Santos says that Unitel owes money to one of its companies

Isabel dos Santos denied having received unjustified transfers from Unitel, guaranteeing instead to be a creditor of the telecommunications operator who allegedly will not have returned a loan she obtained from the shareholder Vidatel Ltd., controlled by the businesswoman.

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Vidatel Ltd., which holds 25 percent of Unitel, counters in a statement to which Lusa had access, news that the daughter of ex-president José Eduardo dos Santos, would have taken advantage of her shareholder position in the operator to transfer , without justification, funds for Vidatel Ltd. accounts in Portugal.

The money would then circulate through accounts of the entities Unitel Internacional Holding BV, Athol Limited and Sílaba Real Estate Limited, in addition to Isabel dos Santos' accounts with BPI and Eurobic.

According to Vidatel, “there is never and there has never been” unjustified transfers from Unitel to Vidatel Ltd or to Isabel dos Santos personal accounts, as the ones that were made are related to “dividends authorized by the Unitel General Meeting and wages, as stipulated employment and mandate contracts ”.

On the other hand, it guarantees that Unitel SA "owes debts to Vidatel Ltd, the existence of which is due to reasons solely attributable" to the telecommunications operator.

At issue is the lack of repayment, in 2016, of the loan that Unitel obtained from Vidatel, a debt that “is properly registered in the audited accounts of Unitel, certified by an external auditor, and recognized and approved by the General Meeting of shareholders for several years. years".

Vidatel adds that "it will go under the Law and the shareholders' agreement entered into by the various shareholders of Unitel, to carry out this clarification" with the operator itself.

Until January this year, Unitel was controlled by four shareholders, each with 25 percent: PT Ventures (owned by Brazilian Oi), oil company Sonangol, Vidatel (from Isabel dos Santos) and Geni (from general Leopoldino “Dino” Fragoso do Nascimento).

On January 26, Sonangol fully purchased PT Ventures, for US $ 1 billion, becoming the operator's largest shareholder.

In December last year, the Luanda court decreed the preventive seizure of accounts and holdings by Isabel dos Santos, her husband Sindika Dokolo, and her manager Mário Filipe Moreira Leite da Silva, former chairman of the Bank's Board of Directors de Fomento de Angola (BFA).

Among the companies that were subject to the foreclosure of the holdings, Unitel is included.

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