It has however emerged that several government leaders including former Vice-President Manuel Vicente the current Minister of Home Affairs Eugenio Laborinho and the minister of Transport Ricardo de Abreu all have Portuguese citizenship...
Other than protesting about unemployment and the failure to make good on pledges for local democracy protestors and youth icons like Luaty Beirão or Benedito ('Dito') Dali are demanding a 'real' fight against corruption one that does not have special exceptions such as former Sonangol boss Manuel Vicente who ditched Dos Santos and embraced Lourenço with uncanny timing and remains one of the country's key oligarchs...
Substantial parts of their company assets are to be seized but their partner former Vice-President and ex-Sonangol boss Manuel Vicente is untouched (AC Vol 59 No 9 Obrigado e tchau Dos Santos)...
São Vicente's company AAA Seguros ran a monopoly of insurance sales to oil companies when Manuel Vicente presided over Sonangol...
Members of ex-President Dos Santos's inner circle such as General Manuel Hélder Vieira Dias Júnior ('Kopelipa') and Manuel Vicente former vice-president and ex-boss of state oil company Sonangol have brought back some of their overseas assets...
A senior official in Luanda said that former executive Manuel Vicente Generals Manuel Hélder Vieira Dias Júnior known as 'Kopelipa' and Leopoldo Fragoso do Nascimento known as 'Dino' had been 'very supportive' of the Lourenço government but declined to go into details about any sums transferred...
He has served on the company's board and in various other roles including as chairman of Somoil a company allegedly owned by former Vice-President and ex-Sonangol chairman Manuel Vicente along with former oil minister Desiderio Costa...
' Lourenço has also forced Portugal to transfer the corruption case against former Vice-President Manuel Vicente to Angola...
The third man Manuel Vicente a former President of Sonangol EP who served as Vice-President under Dos Santos has emerged as one of Lourenço's closest advisors on oil and gas and economic issues say senior sources (AC Vol 58 No 18 Secrets of the Dos Santos media empire)...
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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...
In February Portuguese prosecutors charged Vice-President Manuel Vicente with bribing a Portuguese public official for $810 000 to drop an investigation...
Is it party and government officials puzzle Vice-President Manuel Vicente even though the MPLA has virtually disowned him and he stands accused in Portugal of money-laundering (AC Vol 50 No 16 Vicente's Portuguese links)...