Angola: Isabel Dos Santos Denounces "False Documents" In One Of Her Cases

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Isabel dos Santos and Sindika Dokolo challenge the decision to freeze her assets. They claim that false documents were used as the basis for Angolan and Portuguese court decisions to launch legal proceedings. The prosecution denies and assures that it was not these documents which served as the basis for the decision.

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It was not until the end of April that lawyers for the daughter of the former Angolan president and her husband accessed the investigation file. In an explanatory note sent by the communication team of the daughter of Isabel Dos Santos, various pieces allegedly falsified are reproduced. They relate to a suspected asset leak in 2019 following a loan proposal of up to $ 1 billion to a Japanese company made by an Emirati businessman who claimed to represent the daughter of the former Angolan head of state.

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There is in particular a passport with his photo in the file, but the defense of Isabel dos Santos points out that it is a false easy to detect since it is not his signature which appears at the bottom of the document. But that of actor Bruce Lee. For Isabel dos Santos, the Japanese company in question was the victim of an “  internet scam  ”, unrelated to it, but the Angolan justice system would have taken up the information without verifying it… Proof of the “  unfair and illegal  ” nature of the procedure and Luanda's will to harm him.

The asset freeze is not based on this matter

These revelations caused a stir, particularly in Portugal where information was widely reported. The Angolan prosecution was forced to react and ensures that this copy of passport was indeed "  under investigation  ". He also claims that the asset freezing decision was not based on this case, or "  no identity document  " and that there are several civil and criminal proceedings under way in Angola. They would no longer relate to $ 1 billion today, but to $ 5 billion, specifies the general prosecutor's office of Luanda.

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