She’s the subject of a criminal investigation into misappropriation of funds when she was chief executive of Angola’s state-owned oil company Sonangol.

Isabel Dos Santos was given the Sonangol job by her father Jose Eduardo Dos Santos when he was President of Angola.

Exploiting  that special relationship made her Africa’s richest woman with a fortune of $2,2- billion.

Angola’s seeking to recoup money from her.

Dos Santos, who lives in London, says she’s the victim of a politically motivated witch hunt.

Dozens of personal and corporate bank accounts she hold in Portugal have been seized by Lisbon authorities along with those of her husband Sandika Dokolo.

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Nuno Ribeiro Da Cunha was named as Dos Santos’ co-accused in charges brought by Angolan authorities yesterday.

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Police say everything points to suicide in the death of 45-year-old Nuno Ribeiro Da Cunha.

He was suffering from depression and had made one attempt at his life.

Da Cunha was named as co-accused with Isabel Dos Santos in embezzlement and money laundering charges brought by Angolan authorities.

At the Euro Bic bank, he handled her account when she was chief executive of Angola’s state-owned oil company Sonangol in 2016 and 2017.

Euro Bic has cut ties with Dos Santos who was their major shareholder

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To get the oldest daughter of former President Josè Eduardo Dos Santos into the dock, Angolan authorities will have to extradite her from London.

Former President Josè Eduardo Dos Santos, dubbed by the watchdog group Transparency International as one of the most corrupt leaders on the planet, put his daughter in charge of Angola’s state-owned oil company Sonangol in 2016. 

She was sacked a year later by her father’s successor Joao Lourenco.

Thousands of  documents allegedly showing how she crookedly  accumulated more than two billion dollars of Angolan public money have been leaked to the media – spurring the corruption charges.

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