The Banco Comercial Português (BCP) filed a lawsuit against the Angolan businesswoman Isabel dos Santos and a company she owns, Santoro Financial Holding, for an amount of more than three million euros.
According to the Citius portal, the process that was presented on Wednesday, September 7, was distributed this Thursday in the Central Civil Court of Lisbon and has a value of about 3,297 million euros.
In July of this year, BCP and Novo Banco joined in a lawsuit against Isabel dos Santos and two of her companies, Santoro Financial Holding and Finisantoro Holding Limited, a lawsuit that is taking place in the same court and has a value of 17,414 million of euros
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A year earlier, in July 2021, Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD), BCP and Novo Banco carried out a process of 26.9 million euros against the Angolan businesswoman, also in the Central Civil Court of Lisbon.
This last case has as defendants Isabel dos Santos, Kento Holding Limited, based in Malta, and Unitel International Holdings BV, based in the Netherlands, the companies that participate in Zopt, the company that represents the partnership between the businesswoman and Sonae in NOS.
The two companies in question have indirect shares of Isabel dos Santos in NOS, which are being arrested.
Counting only these three cases, the bank has legal proceedings against the Angolan businesswoman for a value of almost €50 million.
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Added to this process are other legal actions involving the bank and the businesswoman, involved in the Luanda Leaks scandal, which led to the seizure or loss of shares of several national companies, such as Efacec, which was nationalized and is in the process of being so. reprivatized, with the sale of the State’s public participation to the DST group.
The International Consortium for Investigative Journalism (ICIJ) revealed in January 2020 more than 715 thousand filesunder the name of Luanda Leaks, which details alleged financial maneuvers by Isabel dos Santos and her husband, Sindika Dokolo, who has since died, which would have allowed them to withdraw money from the Angolan public treasury through tax havens.
At the end of 2020, CGD, BCP and Novo Banco had already joined a process by the companies Winterfell and Winterfell 2, which have the participation of the businesswoman in Efacec.
There are also individual actions by CGD and a joint venture between BCP and Novo Banco, according to newspaper Expresso.
Source: Observadora
