The Luanda Leaks are a trove of 715,000 emails, charts, contracts, audits, and accounts that help explain how Dos Santos built a business empire worth an estimated $2bn. Dos Santos has made her name, and fortune, through key roles and investments in some of Angola’s most important industries. Isabel dos Santos responds to Luanda Leaks investigation Read moreThe documents offer details of how those holdings came about, including presidential decrees from which she benefited, and the formation of a network of offshore companies. Dos Santos has denied that she benefited unfairly from her father’s position, and said moves by the Angolan government to freeze her and her husband’s assets were a political “witch-hunt”. Dos Santos told the BBC.

Source: The Guardian January 20, 2020 15:00 UTC