The Angolan businesswoman reacted today to the news that was the subject of reports by two US banks in 2013 due to suspicious activities.
In a statement, Isabel dos Santos guarantees that she was never, like her companies, “customers of any American bank”.
“It is completely false and defamatory that a North American bank helped Isabel dos Santos with transfers associated with her family and the Angolan State”, it can be read.
“As the correspondent bank of the BFA / BPI bank, JPMorgan makes requests for compliance requesting information about various transactions and from several bank customers, which is absolutely normal ”,
The businesswoman argues that in 2013 the “additional information requests that supported these transactions were requested by the banks and the supervisor and were duly provided. In addition, it was verified that there was no anomalous situation or irregularity and that these were payments made within the scope of ordinary and current commercial activities ”.
Expresso reported today that the businesswoman and her husband, Sindika Dokolo, were the subject of two reports on suspicious activity in 2013.
The daughter of former Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos “was the subject of two reports on suspicious activity in 2013 in the United States, one from JP Morgan and the other from Standard Chartered” due to “transfers linked to Unitel and the diamond business in that Sindika Dokolo was a partner in the Angolan State ”.
The news was released as part of an investigation by the International Journalists Consortium (ICIJ) in partnership with Expresso, after BuzzFeed News obtained more than two thousand confidential bank documents, in a leak known as “FinCEN Files”.
Isabel do Santos and husband were the target of reports on suspicious activity in 2013 in the USA
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