Two decades of unscrupulous deals that made Isabel dos Santos Africa’s wealthiest woman and left oil and diamond-rich Angola one of the poorest countries on Earth
Her father was president of Angola, a country wracked by poverty and civil war, for 38 years (1979 to 2017), and his administration was widely held to be corrupt. In 2013, Angola ranked near the bottom of a corruption index published by Transparency International
The hacker, Rui Pinto, handed over a hard drive "containing all data related to the recent revelations concerning Ms Isabel Dos Santos’s fortune" to a whistleblowing organisation in 2018, his lawyers said.
The records and articles also show how a plethora of financial firms, lawyers, accountants and government officials worldwide have stepped up to enable the schemes
Her father was president of Angola, a country wracked by poverty and civil war, for 38 years (1979 to 2017), and his administration was widely held to be corrupt. In 2013, Angola ranked near the bottom of a corruption index published by Transparency International
The hacker, Rui Pinto, handed over a hard drive "containing all data related to the recent revelations concerning Ms Isabel Dos Santos’s fortune" to a whistleblowing organisation in 2018, his lawyers said.
The records and articles also show how a plethora of financial firms, lawyers, accountants and government officials worldwide have stepped up to enable the schemes
Prosecutors say that they are tracing money allegedly moved out of the country by the dos Santos family and associates and that they are collaborating with the U.S., U.K., Switzerland, Brazil, Portugal and Congo.
The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople, uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean. More than two-thirds of countries score below 50 on this year’s CPI, with an average score of just 43. It reveals that the continued failure of most countries to significantly control corruption is contributing to a crisis in democracy around the world.
