I'm a scapegoat: Angola's isabelaangola decries corruption 'witch hunt' by Noah_Browning dmitryZ_reuters
LONDON - Angolan billionaire and former first daughter Isabel Dos Santos decried a New Year’s Eve court order to freeze her vast assets as a “witch hunt” engineered to weaken her father’s influence and distract from economic failures.
In the latest step of what Angolan authorities say is one of Africa’s most successful anti-corruption drives, dos Santos’s assets were frozen on Dec. 31, threatening to turn a titan of African business into a pariah.“This is a political trial, you have a persecuting state and servile and partisan magistrates. Then you have a woman who has been chosen to set an example as a scapegoat. That’s me.” Dos Santos told Reuters in an interview in London.
Dos Santos said she and her colleagues were not contacted about any investigation or asked to provide any defense, and she learned of the court action via journalists over WhatsApp. The Bank of Portugal told Reuters it was evaluating dos Santos’ suitability as a shareholder of Portuguese banks, but she said she did not fear for her financial interests abroad because, unlike Angola, they have “a state of law”.Dos Santos says her mission is to encourage entrepreneurship and galvanize the private sector to drive growth in Angola, Africa’s second-biggest oil exporter, a major diamond producer and sub-Saharan Africa’s third-largest economy.
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