A judgment of the Supreme Court of Luanda, dated 7 October, dismissed Habeas Corpus' request "for lack of foundation", so the Angolan businessman will remain in preventive detention.
The "aspects exposed and which serve as a basis" for the request for immediate release "do not comply with the requirements required by law for its establishment, so the fulfillment is not feasible", because "there can only be a provision" when whether it is illegal, actual and actual imprisonment, wound of illegality ", consider the judges who signed the decision.
The request "has as its object the applicant's state of health" and the provision of habeas corpus has "an extraordinary and expeditious nature", aimed at responding quickly to situations of manifest illegality of imprisonment, refer the magistrates.
However, the facts adduced by the applicant "are not in themselves sufficient evidence for the application to be feasible, and it is up to the Prison Institution to provide for the assurance of conditions appropriate to their health", they conclude.
Carlos São Vicente's request for release was delivered on 28 September and, on 7 October, the defense of the businessman also submitted a request, addressed to the presiding judge of the Supreme Court, to which Lusa had access, requesting the process of a report by the National Directorate of Investigation and Penal Action.
The report, completed on 7 August, was the document that served as the basis for the Attorney General's response to a rogatory letter from the Swiss authorities, to which Lusa also had access, and which concluded that, to date, in Angola did not have "evidence of the practice of crimes of corruption, money laundering, economic participation in business and any other crimes in connection with facts contained in the letter rogatory (...) by respondent Carlos Manuel São Vicente".
At issue, for the defense of Carlos São Vicente, there was a contradiction between the pre-trial detention order of the businessman, issued on 22 September, with the PGR's response to a Swiss rogatory letter in August, which said there was no evidence of a crime for part of the entrepreneur, who is now suspected of embezzling money from Sonangol to the company AAA Seguros, when he worked for both companies.
The judicial authorities have already ordered the seizure of several buildings belonging to the AAA group, owned by businessman Carlos de São Vicente, who is also being investigated in Switzerland for embezzlement and money laundering.
The National Asset Recovery Service of PGR issued a statement announcing the seizure of the AAA buildings, the IU and IKA hotels, located throughout the national territory and the IRCA building, at Rua Amílcar Cabral, in Luanda.
After the buildings, the National Asset Recovery Service of PGR announced the seizure of the 49% minority shareholding in AAA Activos in Standard Bank Angola, where the businessman is a non-executive director, having asked for suspension of functions for the duration of the process.
The PGR also requested the freezing of accounts and seizure of assets by Irene Neto, daughter of President Agostinho Neto, and the businessman's wife.
AAA, led by Carlos de São Vicente, is one of the largest Angolan business groups, operating in the insurance and hospitality sectors.
