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Spanish company will have bribed Angolan Court of Auditors with over two million dollars

Earlier it had been revealed that the company had paid about 20 million dollars in bribes to several Angolan companies to keep the 533 million dollars contract - destined for the construction of a supply market in Luanda - to be maintained. In these mentions, the name of the Angolan Court of Auditors had already appeared, however, this is the first time the contours around the bribes paid by the spanish company are known.

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The spanish company Mercasa has bribed the Angolan Court of Auditors with more than two million dollars. The complaint was made by the spanish newspaper OKDiario, which cites documents resulting from official investigations.

According to the daily newspapper, Mercasa paid "two million and fifty thousand dollars to members of the Court of Auditors in Angola to close the corruption investigations."

The newspaper explains that Armando Andrade, then director of the consortium of the country, contacted Mercasa to say that the collection of the 533 million dollars contract was delayed due to an investigation opened by the Attorney General's Office. The investigation in question was going to analyze the possible misappropriation of funds and corruption of rulers who were involved in the contract. Armando Andrade also told the spanish company that Guilherme Taveira Pinto was to blame for the delays, saying that he had diverted 17.5 million dollars to his companies. The accusation was not well received by Taveira Pinto and Armando Andrade was eventually "dismissed for denouncing the Taveira maneuvers".

To resolve the impasse, more bribes were paid to officials "through separate societies created by Taveira, which had excellent relations with several government ministers of Eduardo dos Santos governement," the newspaper writes, adding that in 2016 Taveira Pinto sent an e-mail to Mercasa reporting the "illegal commissions" that had to be paid for the payments to be unblocked.

"Payments were made by transfer to Soter (one of the Taveira companies) which were intended, according to other documents, to pay unlawfully to the Court of Auditors", adds OKDiario.

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