Isabel dos Santos

For over a year Angolan emissaries have been trying to persuade United States' officials to impose sanctions on Isabel dos Santos via the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control a measure that would bar her from visiting the US and her companies from business transactions in US dollars...

Isabel dos Santos whose assets in Angola were frozen by court order on 23 December is in London where she has substantial assets and her father is at his villa in Barcelona protected by private security operatives...

A day before his meeting with Portugal's chief prosecutor Gago in Lisbon Grós said in Luanda that he would issue an international warrant against Isabel dos Santos if she failed to cooperate with the investigations...

The state investigation said Grós will form the basis of criminal charges against Isabel Dos Santos and several Portuguese nationals working with her...

Without referring to Da Cunha's death Isabel dos Santos pushed back against the government's planned charges accusing it of a 'concentrated and well-coordinated attack ahead of elections'...

A Luanda court froze Isabel dos Santos's assets in Angola on 31 December...

It is reports of these 'voluntary repatriations' that underlie Isabel dos Santos's criticisms of a 'highly selective' campaign to repatriate state assets...

As the storm over Isabel dos Santos's business methods raged in the international media she announced that might consider running as a presidential candidate in the next election...

Saturnino replaced the billionaire Isabel dos Santos as CEO of the state oil company in late 2017 only two months after President João Lourenço took office in what was then seen as one of his boldest moves against the business and patronage network built during the 37-year reign of his predecessor José Eduardo dos Santos (AC Vol 58 No 24 Dos Santos clan targeted)...

When Saturnino replaced Isabel dos Santos at the end of 2017 he accused her of mismanagement and directing consultancy fees to her own companies...

For Isabel dos Santos life in the year since President João Lourenço took over from her father has been difficult...

Isabel dos Santos the ex-President's eldest daughter was ejected from the state oil company Sonangol in November 2017 and further embarrassed in February by her successor Carlos Saturnino...

Vilified by Isabel dos Santos as the man responsible for Sonangol's decline he is now given preferential treatment at the company's events which he attends together with Saturnino...

It took less than two months in office for President João Lourenço to take a direct swipe at Isabel dos Santos Africa's richest woman and the daughter of his predecessor José Eduardo dos Santos...

The demotion mirrors what happened to Zenu's sister Isabel dos Santos chief executive of the state-owned oil company Sonangol...

Scepticism also persists towards oil producer Angola where inflation remains at perilously high levels amid currency depreciation and the restructuring at the state oil company Sonangol under the leadership of the former First Daughter Isabel dos Santos is yet to convince investors (AC Vol 58 No 20 New man takes it slow)...

Angola's largest and only private mobile telecommunications company is Unitel of which Isabel dos Santos is a major shareholder...

One appointment is likely to have ruffled Isabel dos Santos's feathers...

It was even suggested that a weak minister had been picked deliberately so that Isabel dos Santos could continue running Sonangol unsupervised (AC Vol 57 No 15 Dos Santos takes stock shares and AC Vol 57 No 12 The Sonangol is you)...

extravaganza paid for by the government and sponsored by the Kero supermarket chain which is co-owned by Vice-President Manuel Vicente and Isabel dos Santos's Unitel used the latest lighting water features temporary structures and state of the art projection equipment from Britain and Portugal...