This archive report was first published on 25 June 2020.
Published on June 25, 2020, Angola's authorities are weighing the possibility of issuing an arrest warrant for Isabel dos Santos, the 47-year-old daughter of former President Jose Eduardo dos Santos.
According to sources, dos Santos has been accused of diverting billions of dollars from state companies during her father's near four-decade rule of the oil-rich African nation.
She has strongly denied the allegations, describing them as a 'coordinated political attack' devised by the Angolan government.
As part of a crackdown on graft by the former president's successor, Joao Lourenco, a civil court in Luanda issued a 'preventative' order to freeze her business assets last December.
Following an analysis of over 700,000 leaked documents, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) also accused her of looting state coffers.
Portugal subsequently froze her assets in that country, where she has invested mainly in banking and telecommunications.
One of dos Santos's lawyers, Dan Morrison, described Angola's order to freeze her assets as 'manifestly unfair, improper' and based on 'faked' documents.
