Both generals, who have already been indicted in a lawsuit related to contracts between the State and China International Fund (CIF), are being defended by the law firm "Sérgio Raimundo e Associados".
The first of these hearings, which took place this Tuesday at the National Directorate of Investigation and Penal Action (DNIAP), an organ of the PGR, both defendants "escaped" from the spotlight of the press, but a DNIAP source confirmed the presence of the generals early on.
At the end of the hearing, lawyer Sérgio Raimundo made no statement to the press, "fearing" a possible punishment from the Angolan Bar Association (OAA).
"You can't [speak], the OAA is now very rigid," said the lawyer, already inside his car.
In order not to be seen by the media, the lawyer's car transported both generals from the basement of the building and at the exit, already at the gate, the car avoided the eyes of journalists and went in the opposite direction.
The hearings should continue this Wednesday at DNIAP headquarters in Luanda.
General "Kopelipa" was head of the Military House of the Presidency in the era of the former head of state, José Eduardo dos Santos, and General "Dino", head of communications in the previous regime.
A source at the law firm "Sérgio Raimundo e Associados" said it was not true that both generals surrendered to judicial pressure and handed over part of their assets to the state.
The generals are being heard as defendants in order to apply the respective coercive measures, but they cannot be arrested preventively before the indictment, in the adversarial phase, because they "enjoy immunity".
In February of this year, the National Asset Recovery Service of the Attorney General's Office (PGR) seized the CIF Luanda One and CIF Two buildings, owned by the Angolan law firm China International Fund Angola, without specifying the reasons.
The buildings in question, the highest in that area, with 25 floors, are located in the urban district of Ingombota, in Luanda, near the former National Assembly, and host offices of several private companies.
The seizure followed another week earlier of more than a thousand unfinished properties, buildings, shipyards and land in the Vida Pacífica urbanization and in Kilamba, on the outskirts of Luanda, which were in the possession of Chinese companies China International Fund, Limited (CIF Hong Kong) and China International Fund, Limitada (CIF Angola).
These properties were paid for with public funds, but were not in the sphere of state property.
In April last year, PGR had already announced the recovery of 262 million euros to the CIF Angola consortium, as the managing entity of the construction project for the new Luanda International Airport.
CIF Limited is a private 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, it has participated in the construction of several social projects and owns several enterprises, including a cement factory, in the town of Bom Jesus, 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 negotiate with Angolan oil through China Sonangol International Holding.
Among the directors of China Sonangol International Holding would be Manuel Vicente, former president of the state oil company and former vice-president of Angola.
