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corruption in Angola’s diamond indus- Luanda Provincial Court ordered the Government announced it was prepar-
try. In 1999 the president gave her a freezing of dos Santos's Angolan bank ing for a legal battle for the confiscation
24.5% share in the Angola Selling Corp, accounts and the seizure of her stake in of her assets in Portugal] a process that
with an exclusive license to market local companies, including Unitel and is already in operation in the form of
Angolan diamonds, to a company Banco de Fomento Angola. formal government to government
controlled by dos Santos and her According to reports, Dos Santos left request sent to Portugal to stop the
mother. In 2012, Dokolo signed a deal Angola in 2018 for the U.K., where she’s transfer of funds from Portuguese
with Angola’s diamond-trading agency thought to own properties in central Commercial Bank to foreign financial
to buy a stake in the Swiss luxury jewel- London. Early this month, Angola’s institutions.
ler De Grisogono. The documents allege prosecutor general said on public radio Many Angolans have been surprised at
that this deal was funded by the state that the country would use “all possible the way that President João Lourenço
company. means and activate international mech- has gone after the business interests of
The Angolan Government has, since anisms to bring dos Santos back to the his predecessor's family. Until recently,
2018, been trying to prosecute Isabel country.” Isabel Dos Santos had been touted as a
dos Santos for past corruption crimes Meanwhile, as she remains under inves- possible challenger to João Lourenço as
that may have led Angola' into an tigation in Portugal, she is said to have president of Angola, one of the poorest
economic crisis. And as she remains in since assumed the UAE as her official countries in the world. •
exile in Portugal, in December 2019; a country of residence, while the Angolan
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