Angola's ex-president has defended his son and a former central bank governor who are accused of embezzling $500 million from the country's sovereign wealth fund, court documents showed on Tuesday....
Angola’s ex-president has defended his son and a former central bank governor who are accused of embezzling $500 million from the country’s sovereign wealth fund, court documents showed on Tuesday.
He is charged alongside the former governor of the national bank of Angola, Valter Filipe da Silva, and two others. “I authorised the transfer of the $500 million,” Santos said in a written response to questions sent to him by judges and read in court on Tuesday. Jose Filomeno dos Santos, nicknamed “Zenu”, is the first member of the ex-president’s family to be prosecuted.“These acts were part of the mandate that was given by the former president,” da Silva’s lawyer Sergio Raimundo told reporters after the hearing.
The charges against her followed the January publication by international media outlets of a probe dubbed “Luanda Leaks” that claimed she fraudulently accumulated a fortune estimated at $2.1 billion .
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