Angolan businesswoman Isabel dos Santos and her Congolese husband Sindika Dokolo have decided to challenge the freezing of their assets in the context of an investigation for embezzlement of public funds, their lawyer said Tuesday.
I confirm that the freezing was ordered on the basis of documents that we consider false (...) falsified by the Angolan justice system (...) with the sole aim of allowing such a measure, of "deliberately misleading justice.
As part of their investigations, the Angolan and Portuguese courts recently ordered the freezing of its bank accounts and the seizure of some of its assets in both countries.
“I confirm that the freezing was ordered on the basis of documents that we consider false (…) falsified by the Angolan justice system (…) with the sole aim of allowing such a measure,” Tondela said, accusing the attorney general of “deliberately misleading justice”.
The prosecutor’s office had described Ms. dos Santos’ allegations as “a joke” and assured that the decision to freeze her assets had been based on other documents.
