In the span of just six months, from May to November 2017, in the last third of her term at the helm of Sonangol, Isabel dos Santos made the Angolan state oil company to which she had been appointed by her father, when José Eduardo dos Santos was still president of Angola, to transfer at least US $ 115 million of public funds to Dubai.
Justified as payment for consultancy services provided to Sonangol, these transfers were made to a bank account of an offshore company, Matter Business Solutions, controlled by the main lawyer of the Angolan businesswoman, the Portuguese Jorge Brito Pereira, partner at Uría Menéndez, the firm scored by Proença de Carvalho.
The Dubai offshore company hired by Isabel dos Santos as chairman of the board of directors of the Angolan state oil company had, in addition, its principal business manager, Mário Leite da Silva, as director, and also as director and sole shareholder declared to the authorities of the Dubai the Portuguese Paula Oliveira, close friend and partner of the daughter of the former Angolan head of state in other societies.
Although she was the friend and partner to become the owner, expenses incurred in the summer of 2016 for the constitution of Matter Business Solutions in that city in the United Arab Emirates were borne by a company owned by José Eduardo dos Santos’ daughter.
Current chairman of the telecommunications company NOS, Jorge Brito Pereira is also administrator of the Swiss jeweler De Grisogono and chairman of the general meeting of several institutions, including Efacec Power Solutions and the BIC and BFA banks, where he represents in all the interests of the Angolan businesswoman. and her husband, Sindika Dokolo.
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