This archive report was first published on 26 June 2020.
Published on June 26, 2020, Angola's attorney general, Helder Pitta Gros, announced plans to issue an international arrest warrant for Isabel dos Santos, the country's wealthiest woman.
According to Forbes, dos Santos, 47, is accused of diverting billions of dollars from state companies during her father Jose Eduardo dos Santos's near four-decade rule of the oil-rich African nation.
However, dos Santos has denied the allegations, describing them as 'a coordinated political attack' devised by the Angolan government.
She also stated in a Facebook post that she is 'ready to cooperate' with the Angolan and Portuguese courts through her lawyers, but has not received any specific request in the case.
"So the intention by the attorney general's office to issue an international arrest warrant is manifestly unjustified," she said in the post.
Her business assets were frozen last December by a civil court in Luanda as part of a crackdown on graft by the former president's successor, Joao Lourenco.
Additionally, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) accused her of looting state coffers after analysing a trove of more than 700,000 leaked documents.
Portugal subsequently froze her assets in that country, where she has invested mainly in banking and telecommunications.
