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The Official List of the Henchmen of the MPLA Regime
TOP 60 RICH PEOPLE IN ANGOLA LIST
Looting the country's riches by liquefying the natural assets of the nation through the creation of companies
under the name of family and members of the ruling elite of the MPLA Regime
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3. If the Prosecutor concludes that there is a reasonable basis to proceed with an investigation, he or she shall submit to the Pre-Trial Chamber a request for authorization of an investigation, together with any supporting material collected. Victims may make representations to the Pre-Trial Chamber, in accordance with the Rules of Procedure and Evidence.
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Angola at the Crossroads: Between Kleptocracy and Development 9780755606733, 9780755606764, 9780755606740
Table of contents :
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figure
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
Introduction and method
Basic background: Post-war Angola. Reconstruction and ‘privatization of sovereignty’ (2002–10)
Part I: Dos Santos’s last moves (2010–17)
Chapter 1: Hope revisited (2010–14)
Chapter 2: Crisis and abandonment (2014–17)
Part II: Transition and hope in Africa? (2017–20)
Chapter 3: Dos Santos’s tiesHow to cut the Gordian knot?
Chapter 4: Breaking the mould: Lourenço acts
Conclusions: Is this time different?
Epilogue
Selected bibliography
Index
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Angola at the Crossroads Link between Angolan president's son-in-law and state oil company Sonangol, the state-owned oil company of Angola, nominated the son-in-law of Angola's President dos Santos to the board of a holding company that owns a third of the listed Portuguese oil firm Galp Energia, Global Witness has learned. .
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Angola at the Crossroads Between Kleptocracy and Development Rui Santos Verde
BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA 29 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in Great Britain 2021 This edition published 2022 Copyright © Rui Santos Verde, 2021 Rui Santos Verde has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this work. For legal purposes the Acknowledgements on p. vii constitute an extension of this copyright page. Series design by Adriana Brioso All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc does not have any control over, or responsibility for, any third-party websites referred to or in this book. All internet addresses given in this book were correct at the time of going to press. The author and publisher regret any inconvenience caused if address Link between the MPLA Regime Dictator son-in-law and
state oil company raises questions about transparency
raises questions about transparency
15th March 2010
Angola is an impoverished country that depends on its oil industry to pay for reconstruction after a long civil war. Angola has a reputation for severe corruption which Global Witness has been reporting on for the last decade.1 Angola's people have one of the lowest life expectancies in the world: 46.5 years, according to the United Nations.2
Galp has major oil investments in Angola, a former colony of Portugal, and works closely with Sonangol, whose chairman Manuel Vicente sits on its board.3
A third of the shares in Galp are owned by a holding company called Amorim Energia BV. Forty-five per cent of the shares in Amorim Energia are owned by a company called Esperaza Holding BV, which is a subsidiary of Sonangol. The rest of Amorim Energia is ultimately controlled by Portugal's Amorim family.4
The board members of Amorim Energia include Sindika Dokolo5, a businessman married to Isabel dos Santos, a daughter of the Angolan president. As this briefing will show, Global Witness has learned that Dokolo was nominated to this post in April 2006 by Esperaza Holding. The latter was wholly owned by Sonangol at the time, according to Dutch corporate records.6
"The son-in-law of the Angolan president, a private businessman, should not be working so closely with the state company which is responsible for managing Angola's oil on behalf of its citizens," said Diarmid O'Sullivan of Global Witness. "This arrangement raises concerns about conflicts of interest to which Sonangol has not responded."
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