Angola’s Isabel dos Santos denies wrong-doing in Sonangol transfer
Lisbon — Isabel dos Santos, Africa’s richest woman and the daughter of former Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos, said she did nothing wrong when she was chair of state-owned oil company Sonangol and called a probe into the transfer of millions of dollars from the Luanda-based firm Political Vengeance.
Angolan newspaper Novo Jornal reported on October 18 that Angola’s prosecuting authority started a criminal investigation into the transfer of $38m from Sonangol authorised by Dos Santos. Her successor at Sonangol, Carlos Saturnino, accused Dos Santos of authorising the transfer to a company in Dubai last year days after she was dismissed as chair. Saturnino was sacked in May...
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