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Generals "Dino" and "Kopelipa" will be heard this Tuesday at the PGR

Generals Leopoldino do Nascimento “Dino” and Hélder Vieiras Dias Júnior “Kopelipa” were constituted defendants and will be heard, Tuesday, by the National Directorate of Investigation and Penal Action (DNIAP) of the Attorney General's Office (PGR), reports the Angola newspaper.

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Generals “Dino” - former Chief of Communications for former President José Eduardo dos Santos - and “Kopelipa”, former Minister of State and head of the Military House (currently the President's Security House), also at the time of José Eduardo dos Santos, will have benefited from contracts signed between the State and the company China International Found (CIF), within the scope of the extinct National Reconstruction Office, details the newspaper, citing a source from the Angolan PGR.

According to the same source, the generals will be heard as defendants in order to apply the respective measures of coercion to them, but they cannot be preventively arrested before the order of pronouncement, in the contradictory instruction phase, as they "enjoy immunities".

"General officers of the Angolan Armed Forces and commissioners of the National Police cannot be arrested without formally charged guilt, except in flagrante delicto, for a felony punishable by a prison sentence of more than two years," he explained.

In February of this year, the National Asset Recovery Service, of the Attorney General's Office (PGR), seized the buildings CIF Luanda One and CIF Two, held by the Angolan company China International Fund Angola, without giving reasons.

The buildings in question, the tallest in that area, with 25 floors, are located in the urban district of Ingombota, in Luanda, close to the old National Assembly, and are home to offices of several private companies.

The seizure took place following another one, carried out a week earlier, of more than a thousand unfinished properties, buildings, shipyards and land in the Vida Pacífico urbanization and in Kilamba, on the outskirts of Luanda, which were owned by Chinese companies China International Fund Limited (CIF Hong Kong) and China International Fund, Limited (CIF Angola).

These properties were paid for with public funds, but were not in the State's property sphere.

In April of last year, PGR had already announced the recovery of 262 million euros to the CIF Angola consortium, as the managing entity for the construction project for the new Luanda International Airport.

CIF Limited is a privately owned Chinese company based in Hong Kong and an office in Beijing, founded in 2003 to finance national reconstruction and infrastructure development projects in developing countries, mainly in Africa.

In Angola, he participated in the construction of several social projects and owns several projects, including a cement factory in the locality of Bom Jesus, in Luanda.

According to a report by the British study center Chatham House, published in 2009, CIF would have links to China Angola Oil Stock Holding Ltd, which would deal with Angolan oil through China Sonangol International Holding.

Among the directors of China Sonangol International Holding would be Manuel Vicente, former president of Sonangol and former vice president of Angola.

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