The TS announced on Monday that it sent a letter to the office of the president of parliament requesting the withdrawal of the immunity of deputy Nuno Álvaro Dala to respond to a case for alleged crimes against honor, namely slanderous accusations, insults and defamation as a result of several complaints that he made in 2020 against the justice system.
For the independent deputy of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), from a legal and formal point of view, this is a judicial process that is being processed in the TS, but which he describes as "just a smokescreen to hide the main objective of the process".
Nuno Álvaro Dala accuses a group of people of being behind this "political process", including a public prosecutor at the Criminal Chamber of the TS, the current presiding judge of the court, Joel Leonardo, the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) and other prosecutors, considering that the objective is simply to lose their mandate.
The former activist and prisoner of the well-known "15+2" process during the mandate of President José Eduardo dos Santos, said he was at ease stating that the aforementioned group "whether or not acting on the orders of João Lourenço (President), acting alone on their own and risk or not, they serve an objective that is political in nature".
"I'm calm and it's not the first time I've gone through a process and yet another one that exposes the weaknesses of the justice system and indicates that the same group as always never tires of demonstrating extremely high talent and an extreme capacity to discredit the system of justice", he stressed.
Nuno Álvaro Dala said that, in 2020, he carried out an in-depth investigation, in coordination with journalist and activist Rafael Marques, into a "corruption scheme" that was installed in the PGR and even at the level of the President of the Republic's Security House and whose results "were made public".
According to the deputy, the contours of this process were also reflected in the so-called Lussati case, about Major Pedro Lussati, assigned to the President's Security House, sentenced to 14 years in prison for crimes of embezzlement, fraud and money laundering.
Dala also criticized the president of the TS, Joel Leonardo, for the fact that he was under accusation of alleged crimes of corruption, nepotism and impunity and was the same person who signed the letter sent to parliament asking for the lifting of his immunity.
"And, in fact, we are now seeing this ridiculous situation in which he sends a letter requesting withdrawal of immunity from a person who actually denounced the same problems that involve the president of the TS himself, along with other figures in the judicial system", argued.
Lusa contacted the Supreme Court to obtain a reaction to these accusations, but an official source referred any reaction to the Public Ministry.
