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Authorities arrested in Benguela the owner of the company Xtagiarious Finance

The owner of the company Xtagiarious Finance, who had been on the run for several months, was arrested in Benguela province, the Criminal Investigation Service (SIC) announced this Thursday.

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According to the SIC spokesperson, Edson de Oliveira was arrested Wednesday in Benguela, after being notified several times by the authorities in order to appear to respond to facts that constitute crimes of usury, criminal association and fraud for fraud.

"It did not appear in the context of several complaints from citizens, who would have been harmed, in a promise of reimbursement of money that had been received by the citizen Edson Caetano de Oliveira, with an interest value of 15 percent to reimburse this money", said Manuel Halaiwa.

The spokesman stressed that the victims were injured in hundreds of millions of kwanzas.

As part of the investigation, SIC seized, between 27 and 29 July, nine properties, located in the municipality of Viana, specifically in the urban district of Zango, known as Luanda Limpa, and sealed seven properties, located at Zango 5-8000.

The first complaints from Xtagirious customers were made in 2021, with the seizure of the assets resulting from 18 ongoing criminal proceedings, where several citizens are complaining against Edson Caetano de Oliveira.

In 2021, the National Bank of Angola (BNA) in a statement said that Xtagiarious was not authorized to carry out any financial activity subject to its supervision, especially in the capture of deposits and monetary investments, activities reserved for banking financial institutions.

The financial company, founded in 2013 by businessman Edson de Oliveira, presented itself to Forbes Angola in April 2021 as a 'start-up' valued at more than four billion kwanzas, directly employing 218 young people at the time and another 30 indirectly.

The entrepreneur told the magazine that the business started with a group of four friends, who created a digital magazine eight years ago, with content on fashion, 'hip hop' and business, which later evolved to provide services to the financial sector.

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