Angolan businesswoman Isabel dos Santos on Wednesday accused Angolan President Joao Lourenco of being instrumental in justice in a personal and political persecution to neutralize it politically.
“If we are to fight corruption in Angola we must look where it is” and “we cannot selectively use the alleged fight against corruption to neutralize what we think may be future political opponents,” Isabel dos Santos said in a statement. Wednesday evening interview with RTP, reacting to the foreclosure of its assets by the Angolan judicial authorities, preventively decreed.
Isabel dos Santos claims to be the target of “political and personal persecution” by the court, as indicated by the current leadership of the People’s Liberation Movement of Angola (MPLA).
The goal of the fight against corruption, announced by President João Lourenço, is to target “people who can enter the future in the political field and who can represent some influence or some popularity within the MPLA itself,” said the businesswoman, who did not refuse political ambitions.
“I have a great sense of duty towards Angola. I will do everything I have to do to defend and render services to my land and my country,” he said, admitting that “it is possible” to run for President of the country. .
“[O] My father left a great political legacy in Angola. It is a legacy that many Angolans and I would like to see respected, “explained the businesswoman in an interview with RTP.
The businesswoman also said she is waiting to be called by the Portuguese courts and the Bank of Portugal to clarify the suspicions of money laundering that will be the source of the money that led to the purchase of BPN, today Eurobic.
“I want to believe that Portuguese justice is a real and functioning justice and that there is a rule of law in Portugal,” said the businesswoman.
Isabel dos Santos added that she is being persecuted for having been in charge of Angolan oil company Sonangol and trying to change internal procedures at the company, which were “very opaque”, namely in the matter of selling oil abroad, from the office of trading in London.
“There is no desire to fight corruption,” he said, commenting that he was named as his successor Carlos Saturnino, the same manager who, according to Isabel dos Santos, was the last person responsible for a lawsuit that left Sonangol bankrupt, with debt of $ 20 billion (18 billion euros).
“Sonangol was a state within a state” and “all boards prior to mine were appointed by the former,” creating an “opaque system” of account control, he said.
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