All eyes on Portugal after Angolan 'Princess' graft scoop

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Vast sums allegedly siphoned out of oil-rich country and stashed abroad. FMTNews

Angola last month froze bank accounts belonging to dos Santos and her husband Sindika Dokolo.

A trove of 715,000 files charges that vast sums were siphoned out of Angola, an oil-rich country whose citizens are mostly mired in poverty, and then stashed abroad, including in Portugal. Ana Gomes, a former socialist MEP, said: “Portugal and many Portuguese are shown around the world to be accomplices, through acts or omission, of the Angolan kleptocracy.”Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva also ended his official silence, telling parliament “the best way of defending Portuguese businesses and Portuguese workers is to uphold the law and be ruthless in fighting corruption”.

The magnate also has a major holding in Galp Energia, a major Portuguese energy group. The company declined to comment when reached by AFP. “Over the past years, the Banco de Portugal has closely tracked Eurobic’s activities,” it added, rejecting criticism that it had turned a blind eye to dos Santos’s activities.

 

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