Isabel dos Santos reacted with indignation to the news of CNN Portugal about the decision of “mismanagement” that was also applied to him by a court of the Netherlands, ratified in 2023, and even condemned her to pay part of the court costs that will already exceed 200 thousand euros. The former Sonangol leader classified the information as “fake news,” but the decision existed and, as CNN said, can serve for civil and compensation and even criminal investigations, which are already underway in that country, which
“Dear followers, there is another campaign of misinformation and falsehoods, organized by journalist António José Vilela, from CNN Portugal. He never interviewed me and never asked me about it, and the worst is that he published a story without contradictory, unlike the rules and ethics of journalism,” wrote Isabel dos Santos this Monday morning (July 14) in his account, then I was not condemned by the court of appeal. Amsterdam. There is no case against me in the Amsterdam Court of Appeal. ”
In another on the same social network, Isabel dos Santos wrote: “If you want the facts and inform the public with truth ask for interview – I give and answer.… You can send DM !!”. Despite availability, contacts (including DM – common abbreviation for Direct Message – direct message or private message) had no response until the publication of this text.
The questions to Isabel dos Santos
Living in Dubai, which prevents him from being detained due to an international warrant of Angolan authorities, and with civil, commercial and criminal proceedings in Angola, Portugal and the Netherlands, Isabel dos Santos did not answer the closing of questions sent on the morning of the 14th by CNN Portugal to four e -mail addresses (two of them personal), their Instagram account and one of their mobile phone numbers. Among other issues, CNN asked him the following:
“-have some comments to the decision of the attached process [enviámos à empresária parte da decisão do tribunal]of the authorities of the Netherlands, a process that aims to themselves and other responsible, between legal and individual persons?
Do you have knowledge of this decision of the authorities of the Netherlands, whose summary is published by CNN Portugal?
– The investigator of the process in question, Van Andel, even said in the inquiry he made to several people in this process, as happened with Mário Leite da Silva, who could not contact her to collect his testimony. The official even asked Mário Leite da Silva [chegou a ser um dos homens de maior confiança de Isabel dos Santos] Could this meeting and inquiry be brokered? Do you have any comments to make?;
– How long will you stay in Dubai? Doesn’t you consider that this can be seen as a way to avoid the international capture warrant that has pending? “
The decision
Like CNN, Dutch researcher Van Andel’s report considered that several decisions in Sonangol regarding the payments of large amounts, allegedly taken by Isabel dos Santos and his trusted men, were null, because there were cases where they happened retroactively. As happened with the resolution of paying almost 132 million euros in dividends. “Numerous people (legal) cooperated in this disconcerting course of events, which resulted in that saints have obtained fraudulently access to € 52.6 million funds of hope,” said Van Andel, the main expert of the case.
More than a year after this report, on June 15, 2023, the Amsterdam Appeal Court ratified much of the document’s findings and condemned a series of “mismanagement” of Holding BV, namely Isabel dos Santos, Sarju Raikundalia (former Sonangol administrator), among others. In the decision of 44 pages to which CNN Portugal agreed, the court justified that the documents that the investigators succeeded, including email messages, left no doubt that there was “mismanagement” of Espeza (registered society in the Netherlands) due to several stratagems set up for this purpose.
“Thus, Isabel dos Santos, with the collaboration of Raikundalia, Manuel Lemos [que morreu em março de 2023]Mário Leite da Silva, Konema Mwenenge [sócio e amigo de infância de Sindika Dokolo] e Robert van Lier [advogado nos Países Baixos]and using false and incorrect decisions, enriched at the expense of hope (and/or Sonangol) by having to pay to example [empresa controlada por Isabel e Sindika] An amount of 52.6 million euros in dividends, without being allowed to do so, ”says the decision.
In the final decision, the court stressed that until the investigation costs would have to be jointly paid by the convicts in the case: a total of 181,500 euros, outside the interest that would begin two weeks after the date of the decision, ie after the end of June 2023. If it has not been paid and as has passed about two years, the amount is expected to exceed 200 thousand euros. According to several contacted judicial sources that have requested anonymity, this decision opens the door to future court decisions of large compensation that are also underway in the Courts of the Netherlands, namely in civil, commercial and criminal court.
Top Image: Recent Publications by Isabel dos Santos on his official account no.
