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Isabel dos Santos

  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Money laundering
    UK imposes sanctions on Isabel dos Santos in money laundering crackdown

    Africa’s former richest woman and exiled Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash among trio hit by measures

    Isabel dos Santos
  • Thursday, 9 December, 2021
    Bribery and corruption
    US places visa restrictions on Isabel dos Santos for alleged corruption

    Africa’s richest woman among those targeted in measures unveiled by Biden administration

  • Monday, 29 March, 2021
    Africa’s richest woman says she was targeted in ‘personal vendetta’

    Isabel dos Santos cites secret recordings in court filing as she says Angolan president targeted her

  • Sunday, 9 February, 2020
    Mining
    Angola’s state diamond group seeks global partners to become a top 3 producer

    Endiama chief wants ‘radical change’ in overhaul of country’s scandal-hit gem industry

    LUANDA, ANGOLA - JANUARY 30: A shanty town is seen next to Endiama E.P. (Empresa Nacional de Diamantes E.P.), the national diamond company of Angola, on January 30, 2020 in Luanda, Angola.Businesswoman Isabel dos Santos is the daughter of the former President of Angola - Jose Eduardo dos Santos. Forbes Magazine put her fortune at $2.1billion making her the richest woman in Africa. How she made her fortune has come under scrutiny as international media using information from the Luanda Leaks have revealed how, during his presidency, her father sanctioned her acquisition of stakes in Angolan industries including banking, diamonds, oil and telecoms. In December 2019 the Angolan Courts froze Dos Santos's stakes in Angolan companies as it bought a case against her regarding funds owed to the state oil firm. (Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images)
  • Monday, 27 January, 2020
    Football hacker claims responsibility for Isabel dos Santos leaks

    Whistleblower awaiting trial for targeting top clubs also provided files on Africa’s richest woman

    (FILES) In this file photo taken on March 5, 2019 Football Leaks whistleblower Rui Pinto (C) is escorted by judicial officers as he arrives at the Metropolitan Court in Budapest, Hungary, for his trial. - The Portuguese Rui Pinto, "hacker" behind the scandal of "Football Leaks", is also the source of "Luanda Leaks" on the alleged fraudulent origin of Angolan Isabel dos Santos' fortune, his lawyers revealed on January 27, 2020. (Photo by FERENC ISZA / AFP) (Photo by FERENC ISZA/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Thursday, 23 January, 2020
    Bribery and corruption
    Portuguese banker named in Isabel dos Santos probe found dead

    Suspected suicide comes as Angolan billionaire indicted for money laundering

    MAIA, PORTUGAL - 5 FEBRUARY, 2018:Isabel dos Santos.Economy Minister Manuel Caldeira Cabral presides over the inauguration of Efacec's new electric mobility industrial unit. The session, was attended by the majority shareholder of Efacec, Isabel dos Santos.This industrial unit, located in Maia, will allow to increase the annual production capacity of fast loaders for electric vehicles, a segment in which Efacec is a world leader.
  • Monday, 20 January, 2020
    Bribery and corruption
    Global firms under scrutiny in Isabel dos Santos alleged corruption leak

    McKinsey, BCG and PwC named in records showing allegations of looting by Angolan billionaire

    FILE PHOTO: Isabel Dos Santos, daughter of Angola’s former President and Africa's richest woman, sits for a portrait during a Reuters interview in London, Britain, January 9, 2020. Picture taken on January 9. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo
  • Sunday, 5 January, 2020
    Angola
    Isabel dos Santos to launch legal fight against Angola asset freeze

    Daughter of former president accuses Lourenço government of political ‘witch-hunt’

    Isabel dos Santos
  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2019
    Angola
    Angola freezes Isabel dos Santos’s assets over graft allegations

    Court order signals further fall from grace of former president’s daughter 

    Isabel dos Santos owns a 25% stake in Unitel, which controls most of Angola’s mobile phone market, among other shareholdings
  • Monday, 1 October, 2018
    European banks
    Angola accused of coercion in holding head of Swiss investment group

    Dos Santos associate detained in Quantum Global’s tussle with sovereign wealth fund

    Mandatory Credit: Photo by AMPE ROGERIO/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (9894534e) Sao Paulo prison in Luanda where the son of former President of the Republic of Angola, Jose Filomeno dos Santos, is detained, Luanda, Angola, 25 September 2018. The former head of Angola's sovereign fund, is accused of misappropriating millions of public funds. His detention is part of an anti-corruption campaign by Angola's new leade. Ex-president's son detained, Luanda, Angola - 25 Sep 2018
  • Wednesday, 22 August, 2018
    Global Economy
    Angola’s IMF request highlights financial strain

    Move by new president signals potential turning point for oil producer

    General Views And Economy In Angola's Capital City...A pedestrian waits by an oil tanker waiting in a queue of traffic outside the Port of Luanda in Luanda, Angola, on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013. Angola, the largest crude oil producer in Africa after Nigeria, appointed Deloitte LLP as the independent auditor of its $5 billion sovereign wealth fund to ensure transparency. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
  • Tuesday, 21 August, 2018
    Currencies
    Angola asks IMF for talks on bailout in return for reform

    Sub-Saharan Africa’s third-biggest economy plagued by forex shortages and bad loans

    A Sonangol EP gas station attendant fills a vehicle with gasoline at a petrol pump in Luanda, Angola, on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013. Angola, the largest crude oil producer in Africa after Nigeria, appointed Deloitte LLP as the independent auditor of its $5 billion sovereign wealth fund to ensure transparency. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
  • Tuesday, 27 March, 2018
    African companies
    HSBC froze account linked to alleged $500m Angolan fraud

    Lenders working to check if they handled money in case involving ex-president’s son

    Composite image of José Filomeno dos Santos and the HSBC logo
  • Wednesday, 15 November, 2017
    African companies
    Africa’s richest woman removed as head of Angola state oil group

    Isabel dos Santos loses job as new president wrests power from family of former leader

    (FILES) This file photo taken on May 3, 2014 shows Angolan businesswoman and chief executive of Angolan state oil firm Sonangol Isabel dos Santos attending an art exhibition in Porto, northern Portugal. Isabel dos Santos, daughter of Angola's ex-president, was sacked as state oil chief, according to a statement released on November 15, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / PUBLICO / FERNANDO VELUDOFERNANDO VELUDO/AFP/Getty Images
  • Wednesday, 15 November, 2017
    Oil
    Angolan president consolidates power, fires dos Santos as head of Sonangol
  • Wednesday, 8 November, 2017
    News in-depthOil
    Angola’s new president defies critics to shake up dos Santos elite

    Few believed João Lourenço would be more than a puppet of the former president

    epa06148198 Joao Lourenco, the candidate of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) reacts during his elections campaign rally in Lobito, Angola, 17 August 2017. Recent polls by the Presidency office show that, currently ruling MPLA party will have 38 percent of the votes, while 32 percent to Angola's opposition party National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and 26 percent for Broad Convergence for the Salvation of Angola – Electoral Coalition (CASA-CE). The opposition party UNITA announced that it will form a coalition government with other opposition parties, if the MPLA, ruling party for 42 years, will lose elections. The elections will be held on 23 August. EPA/MANUEL DE ALMEIDA
  • Tuesday, 20 December, 2016
    InterviewEnergy sector
    Isabel dos Santos in push to reshape Angola’s state oil company

    Billionaire daughter of president plans greater focus on Sonangol’s core business

    Isabel dos Santos
  • Tuesday, 2 August, 2016
    US & Canadian companies
    Cobalt’s $1.8bn Angola buyer pulls out

    US group was seeking to offload oil asset in corruption probe

    A file photograph dated 5 November 2011 shows Isabel dos Santos in Luanda, Angola, 29 January 2013. Isabel dos Santos, the oldest daughter of the Angolian President, is a business woman and investor, and, according to Forbes Magazine's recent calculations, she is Africa's first female billionaire. On top of her interests in oil and diamonds, she has significant shares in telecommunications, media, retail, finance and the energy industry, both in Angola and in Portugal
  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2016
    European banks
    ECB grants Caixabank grace period on BPI Angolan exposure
  • Friday, 3 June, 2016
    World
    Angolan president appoints daughter state oil company chair
  • Monday, 18 April, 2016
    European companies
    Caixabank launches fresh all-out bid for Banco BPI

    Takeover offer values Portuguese lender at €1.62bn

    A visitor enters the former headquarters of Banco BPI SA bank in Lisbon, Portugal, on Monday, Feb. 23, 2015. The Portuguese bank soared the most on record last week after CaixaBank SA offered to buy out investors in a bid to become the largest lender in the Iberian region. Photographer: Thomas Meyer/Bloomberg
  • Monday, 11 April, 2016
    LexUK banks
    Caixabank/BPI: Caixa is not king

    Price tag needs to be lower for the deal to make sense

    CaixaBank headquarters and the Banking Fundacion la Caixa
  • Monday, 11 April, 2016
    European companies
    Caixabank reaches deal for Portugal’s BPI

    Spanish bank in last-minute agreement with Angolan investor Isabel dos Santos

    CaixaBank headquarters and the Banking Fundacion la Caixa
  • Sunday, 10 April, 2016
    European banks
    Caixabank reaches deal on Portugal’s Banco BPI
  • Thursday, 24 March, 2016
    European companies
    Caixabank move for Portugal’s BPI stalls

    Lisbon intervention fails to break impasse with Angolan investor Isabel dos Santos

    Voting Day For The Portuguese Election...Antonio Costa, leader of the Socialist party (PS), speaks to the media after casting his ballot at a polling station during the Portuguese election, in Sao Joao das Lampas, Sintra, Portugal, on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015. Portuguese voters are casting their ballots Sunday in the first general election, since 2011, with polls signaling the government that led the nation out of an international bailout may be re-elected. Photographer: Paulo Duarte/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Antonio Costa
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