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Entrepreneur Sindika Dokolo, husband of Isabel dos Santos, died

Congolese businessman Sindika Dokolo, husband of Angolan businesswoman Isabel dos Santos, died this Thursday in Dubai, a source close to the family told Lusa.

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The Congolese press said that Sindika Dokolo died in Dubai, while diving. Other Angolan sources indicated that the cause of death was an embolism.

Businessman and art collector, Sindika Dokolo was married to Isabel dos Santos, businesswoman and daughter of former president José Eduardo dos Santos, with whom he had four children.

The news was advanced by the Congolese press and messages of condolence multiplied on social networks, such as that of Michée Mulumba, personal assistant to the Congolese President, Felix Tshisekedi: "It was during a dive that he left for eternity, a habitual activity that moved away from his struggle and his loved ones ", on Twitter.

Like Isabel dos Santos, Sindika Dokolo's business was being investigated by the courts, following the revelations of the International Journalists Consortium that became known as "Luanda Leaks".

Sindika Dokolo and the woman are suspected of having harmed the State in millions of dollars and were seized by assets and stakes in companies in December last year, as determined by the Luanda Provincial Court.

Born in former Zaire, on 16 May 1972 (present-day Democratic Republic of Congo) he was the son of banker Augustin Dokolo Sanu, and his second wife, the Danish Hanne Taabbel. He attended the Saint Louis de Gonzague high school in Paris and continued his studies at the University Paris Vi Pierre et Marie Curie.

Inspired by his father, an art lover, he started his art collection when he was 15 and later created the Sindika Dokolo Foundation, in order to promote arts and cultural festivals in Angola and other countries.

In October last year, its Foundation bought and repatriated to Angola 20 pieces of art that had been taken from Angolan museums to foreign collections and prepared to deliver the first recovered Congolese piece to the Kinshasa museum, according to an interview granted at the time. to the Lusa agency.

Critic of the nearly 20 years of President Joseph Kabila's regime in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sindika Dokolo spent about five years in exile due to the lawsuits brought against him in Kinshasa, having returned only in May 2019, already after he came to power Félix Tshisekedi, who took office as Congolese head of state in January.

In February 2016, still with José Eduardo dos Santos as President in Angola, the Sindika Dokolo Foundation delivered to the head of state, at the Presidential Palace, in Luanda, two masks and a statuette of the Tchokwe people (east of Angola), who they had been looted during the armed conflict, recovered after several years of negotiation with European collectors.

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