Some money from Abalone flowed to accounts in Luxembourg then to accounts in the Cayman Islands in the names of offshore companies controlled by senior Angolans including President José Eduardo dos Santos former Angolan Ambassador in Paris Elísio de Figueiredo and the former head of Sonangol Joaquim David...
Rich get richer in Luanda After two decades in power Angola's President José Eduardo dos Santos - who had promised to stand down - has secured the chance of another term after the 2005 elections...
They include the selection of the MPLA's presidential candidate (therefore probably the successor to President José Eduardo dos Santos) and whether the party will do anything about corruption in what many bankers diplomats and decent citizens regard as one of the world's most corrupt regimes...
In banking as elsewhere foreign investors are expected to give large stakes in their Angolan operations to sleeping partners often from the family of President José Eduardo dos Santos or from people in the Futungo presidential palace who collect their cash in exchange for permission to operate...
Vol 44 No 23 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Gabon's President Omar Bongo is reported by Paris fortnightly La Lettre du Continent to have been asked by Tarrallo's lawyers to appoint their client ambassador to the United Nations Education and Scientific Organisation in Paris an expedient used by Angola's President José Eduardo dos Santos to give diplomatic immunity to his friend Pierre Falcone facing an international arrest warrant...
Still less is the government of President José Eduardo dos Santos making headway on promised economic and political reforms (AC Vol 43 No 20)...
President José Eduardo dos Santos has promised technical help for São Tomé's nascent state oil company Petrogas from Angola's wily Sonangol...
The promise by President José Eduardo dos Santos to retire before the next elections (in 2004 at earliest) is questioned...
A passion for secrecy With little public debate new laws devised by President José Eduardo dos Santos' Special Advisor on Constitutional Affairs Carlos Feijó have been passed on state secrecy state security and access to official documents...
He also spoke up for Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos whose government helped fund Mwanawasa's election campaign...