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Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Angolan courts have refrained from action to seize the foreign assets of Isabel Dos Santos, the former president’s daughter and ex Sonangol chief, “but will not hesitate to do so if necessary, a prosecution spokesman said, according to Reuters reporting.
The asset freeze pertaining to dos Santos, her husband Sindika Dokolo and associate Mario da Silva will not be treated as a corruption allegation because it is a civil matter about debts to the state, the spokesman added.
“The parties can resolve the case in a number of ways: recognizing the debt to the state, and paying it, or taking it to the end of the case to let the courts decide.”
Angola seized dos Santos’s domestic assets on Dec. 31, alleging she and her husband steered payments of more than $1 billion from state oil company Sonangol and official diamond trading group Sodiam to companies where they held stakes.
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