Dec 17, 2020
Unitel sues Isabel dos Santos company as her corporate empire continues to crumble
Luanda Leaks showed how the mobile company became a cash cow for the Angolan billionaire. It’s now seeking repayment of loans totalling $430 million.
Luanda Leaks showed how the mobile company became a cash cow for the Angolan billionaire. It’s now seeking repayment of loans totalling $430 million.
While Isabel dos Santos and her advisers face multiple investigations, accountability for the offshore industry remains elusive.
Ignace Sossou spent six months in prison for tweeting about an official speech.
CMVM says Portuguese auditors broke anti-money laundering laws to help Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos grow her business empire.
Lawyers for Angolan oil giant Sonangol expressed satisfaction with the ruling and credited revelations from ICIJ’s Luanda Leaks investigation.
Prosecutors say they are looking into a controversial loan agreement detailed by ICIJ in Luanda Leaks.
Carlos Manuel de São Vicente, the former CEO of a company with a lucrative government monopoly to insure Angola's oil sector, had his bank accounts frozen on suspicions of money laundering.
Embattled businesswoman Isabel dos Santos has lost joint control of Portugal’s $1.82 billion leader in the so-called ‘quad play’ market of internet, TV, fixed and mobile telephony.
Rui Pinto, the computer whiz behind Luanda Leaks and Football Leaks, has been released from custody, pending trial.
Isabel dos Santos has stepped down from the board of Angola's mobile phone operator Unitel, citing "a climate of permanent conflict" among the company’s directors.
A Paris tribunal dismissed billionaire Isabel dos Santos’ case against Angola over a $1.5 billion port project, and ordered her firm pay $232,000 in costs.
European lawmakers have demanded the regulator assess “whether there were breaches of either national or EU law, and to assess the actions taken by financial supervisors.”
An Angolan court says the deal between the country’s diamond company and Isabel dos Santos’ husband was harmful to average Angolans.
The Angolan billionaire has accused the country’s legal system of being “rigged” after a Luanda court threw out an appeal to unfreeze her assets.
The Angolan billionaire has closed down her business offices in Portugal and fired dozens of staff after failing to pay wages, rent and bills for months.
Police searched the headquarters of a state-owned bank as part of a criminal investigation into a $55 million loan to a brewery owned by Isabel dos Santos.
Micael Pereira is a senior staff writer at the leading Portuguese newspaper who worked on Luanda Leaks and many other ICIJ projects.
Portugal has ramped up pressure on Isabel dos Santos in the wake of Luanda Leaks, and following a request from Angolan authorities in pursuit of more than $1 billion.
Four years after Panama Papers, why ICIJ continues to report on tax havens, and those who exploit them.
Cape Verde will close banks that serve only foreign customers, including one partly owned by Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos.
Judge Carlos Alexandre has ordered the seizure of all Isabel dos Santos’ assets in Portugal, including lucrative stakes in various companies and luxury properties.
Portugal will likely freeze proceeds from the expected sale of Isabel dos Santos’ $200 million stake in EuroBic.
A Dutch court has dismissed a case brought by a trust company against journalists who reported on Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos as part of the Luanda Leaks investigation.
The dos Santos brewery masterplan hinged on one of the couple’s favorite business entities: shell companies. This time the couple turned to Mauritius the small island tax haven off the east coast of Africa.
As scrutiny of her business empire increased, African billionaire Isabel dos Santos turned to one of the world’s most secretive tax havens to conceal a $1.8 million luxury apartment.