Isabel dos Santos is planning to take the PR fight to her late father's successor Angolan President João Lourenço by hiring K-Street lobbyists with close links to former United States President Donald Trump and a history of controversial clients...

Isabel dos Santos is based in London and the Stryk contract includes the Mayfair address of her British lawyers Grosvenor Law...

The older daughters including Isabel dos Santos spurned a promised 'suspension' of judicial proceedings in Luanda against them that would allow them to attend the funeral...

Isabel dos Santos eldest daughter and billionaire businesswoman is demanding President Lourenço end all criminal cases against the Dos Santos family in a letter published by the LUSA the Portuguese news agency on 19 July...

Isabel dos Santos is also demanding a full apology from Lourenço for the treatment meted out to her father's clan...

In desperation the Angolan president has offered different types of pardon for Isabel dos Santos and 'Zenu' both targets of his anti-corruption drive but to no avail (AC Vol 61 No 3 The fight over the missing billions goes global)...

Along with her half-sister Isabel dos Santos and half-brother José Filomeno dos Santos ('Zenú') dos Santos she has been the target of judicial investigations (AC Vol 58 No 24 Dos Santos clan targeted)...

Surprising some sceptics state prosecutors took on the Dos Santos family: the ex-President's son José Filomeno dos Santos aka 'Zenu' is in jail appealing against a five-year sentence for fraud and money laundering when he ran the $5 billion national sovereign wealth fund; and Isabel dos Santos who was sacked as managing director of state oil company Sonangol as her sprawling multi-billion dollar business empire came under investigation...

There are claims that Ituri province governor Jean Bamanisa Saidi has teamed up with Sindika Dokolo husband of exiled Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos to buy artisanal gold for cash and export it to Dubai...

Pham cited the contrasting example of Angola backing President João Lourenço's pursuit of the Dos Santos family which led to the freezing in December last year of assets in Angola owned by Isabel dos Santos and her husband Sindika Dokolo...

That was an unfortunate example as Dokolo who is from Congo-Kinshasa and his associate Moïse Katumbi former governor of Katanga and driven from the country by Kabila had asked Tshisekedi to put pressure on the Angola government to relent in its campaign against Isabel dos Santos...

The pursuit by investigative journalists and Luanda's prosecutors of Isabel dos Santos offers a temporary distraction from the country's economic meltdown (AC Vol 61 No 2 The fight over the missing billions goes global)...

Enthusiasm to see Isabel dos Santos on trial in Luanda may wane as the myriad legal cases around her US$2...

Isabel dos Santos's fortune is the most notorious...