Interpol issued an international arrest and extradition order in favor of the Angolan businesswoman Isabel dos Santos, at the request of the Angola Attorney General’s Office (PGR), according to a document obtained by Agência Lusa.
In the document, issued on November 3, the Angolan authorities ask to “locate and detain with a view to extradition” the Angolan citizen Isabel dos Santos.
According to the document, Isabel dos Santos is wanted for “crimes of embezzlement, qualified fraud, illegal participation in business, criminal association and influence peddling, money laundering,” with a maximum sentence of 12 years in prison.
The request “guarantees are given that the extradition will be requested after the arrest of the person, in accordance with national laws and/or applicable bilateral and multilateral treaties.”
The document clarifies that it is a preventive detention order. “This request should be treated as a formal request for provisional arrest, in accordance with national laws and/or applicable bilateral and multilateral treaties.”
The international arrest warrant mentions that the businesswoman is usually in Portugal, the United Kingdom or the United Arab Emirates.
According to the document, between 2015 and 2017, the businesswoman created financial mechanisms “with the intention of obtaining illicit financial gains and concealing suspicious criminal operations” through “information on public money from the Angolan State” that she obtained as a State administrator. Sonangol Oil Company.
According to the court order, Isabel dos Santos will have harmed the Angolan State in total amounts of more than 200 million euros, committing crimes of embezzlement, qualified fraud, illegal participation in businesses and money laundering.
Agencia Lusa contacted Interpol, which forwarded information on this case to the Angolan authorities.
Furthermore, the English and Portuguese authorities neither confirmed nor denied the existence of the order.
Source: TSF
