With Zenú in the dock on charges of money-laundering and embezzlement is former central bank governor Valter Filipe da Silva and two other men (AC Vol 59 No 9 Obrigado e tchau Dos Santos)...

InvestigationsTogether with the former National Bank of Angola head Valter Filipe da Silva Isabel's half-brother José Filomeno dos Santos ('Zenu') – the former boss of the country's sovereign wealth fund Fundo Soberano de Angola (FSDEA) – is already under formal investigation for allegedly improperly transferring $500 mn...

Going nowhereRumours are now afoot that Zenú and former Central Bank governor Valter Filipe da Silva another victim of Lourenço's purge among others have been told not to leave the country...

Augusto Archer de Sousa Mangueira remains Finance Minister and Valter Filipe da Silva continues as central bank governor – he has a separate mandate of five years but is widely believed to be incompetent and a drag on economic reform (AC Vol 58 No 7 Bank scandals hit MPLA hard and AC Vol 58 No 1 The bad loans bite back)...

When central bank Governor Valter Filipe da Silva took the platform at a meeting on Angola's financial sector on 5 July some listened to him describe the government's efforts to restore the availability of foreign currency but others were glued to their smartphones...

Other up-and-coming new faces included Armando Manuel the Finance Minister Valter Filipe Duarte da Silva central bank Governor Teodoro Lima da Paixão Franco Júnior President of state-owned Banco de Poupança e Crédito and Coutinho Nobre Miguel Chairman of another bank Banco Sol (AC Vol 57 No 15 Dos Santos takes stock shares)...