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Isabel dos Santos

Date of Birth: 1973


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Political glitches hold up reforms

The government suggests that the leading state telecoms company Unitel which has previously taken legal action to freeze assets of Isabel Dos Santos could participate in a 2024 initial public offering...

And further privatisations in the banking sector including her Banco de Fomento Angola (BFA) stake seized in December 2019 could be on the cards (Dispatches 28/6/24 Dutch court rules that Isabel dos Santos illegally diverted €52 million from state oil company)...


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Dutch court rules that Isabel dos Santos illegally diverted €52 million from state oil company

Isabel dos Santos daughter of Angola's former President José Eduardo dos Santos faces one of her toughest legal challenges after a Dutch court ruled last week that she had misappropriated over €50 million from Angola's national oil company while she was its chief executive...

'Many persons cooperated in this shameful state of affairs which led […] [Isabel Dos Santos] to fraudulently obtain €52...

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Dos Santos ups the PR war

Isabel dos Santos is planning to take the PR fight to her late father's successor Angolan President João Lourenço by hiring K-Street lobbyists with close links to former United States President Donald Trump and a history of controversial clients...

Isabel dos Santos is based in London and the Stryk contract includes the Mayfair address of her British lawyers Grosvenor Law...


Lourenço's bruising victory

The older daughters including Isabel dos Santos spurned a promised 'suspension' of judicial proceedings in Luanda against them that would allow them to attend the funeral...


Dos Santos haunts Lourenço's campaign

Isabel dos Santos eldest daughter and billionaire businesswoman is demanding President Lourenço end all criminal cases against the Dos Santos family in a letter published by the LUSA the Portuguese news agency on 19 July...

Isabel dos Santos is also demanding a full apology from Lourenço for the treatment meted out to her father's clan...

In desperation the Angolan president has offered different types of pardon for Isabel dos Santos and 'Zenu' both targets of his anti-corruption drive but to no avail (AC Vol 61 No 3 The fight over the missing billions goes global)...


The opposition sees a new chance

Along with her half-sister Isabel dos Santos and half-brother José Filomeno dos Santos ('Zenú') dos Santos she has been the target of judicial investigations (AC Vol 58 No 24 Dos Santos clan targeted)...


Mounting protests face police violence

Surprising some sceptics state prosecutors took on the Dos Santos family: the ex-President's son José Filomeno dos Santos aka 'Zenu' is in jail appealing against a five-year sentence for fraud and money laundering when he ran the $5 billion national sovereign wealth fund; and Isabel dos Santos who was sacked as managing director of state oil company Sonangol as her sprawling multi-billion dollar business empire came under investigation...


A golden hoard

There are claims that Ituri province governor Jean Bamanisa Saidi has teamed up with Sindika Dokolo husband of exiled Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos to buy artisanal gold for cash and export it to Dubai...


Clash of the kings

Pham cited the contrasting example of Angola backing President João Lourenço's pursuit of the Dos Santos family which led to the freezing in December last year of assets in Angola owned by Isabel dos Santos and her husband Sindika Dokolo...

That was an unfortunate example as Dokolo who is from Congo-Kinshasa and his associate Moïse Katumbi former governor of Katanga and driven from the country by Kabila had asked Tshisekedi to put pressure on the Angola government to relent in its campaign against Isabel dos Santos...


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