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The Angolan businesswoman reacted today to the news that she was the subject of complaints by two US banks in 2013 for suspicious activities.
In a statement, Isabel dos Santos guarantees that she was never, like her companies, “a customer of any US 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 a correspondent bank of the BFA / BPI bank, JPMorgan requests accordance requesting information on various transactions and from various bank clients, which is absolutely normal ”,
The businesswoman argues that in 2013 the “requests for additional information that supported these transactions were requested by the banks and the supervisor and were duly delivered. In addition, it was verified that there was no anomalous situation or irregularity and that they were payments made in 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 of suspicious activity in 2013.
The daughter of former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos “was the subject of two reports of suspicious activity in 2013 in the United States, one from JP Morgan and the other from Standard Chartered” for “transfers related to Unitel and the diamond business in which Sindika Dokolo was partner in the Angolan State ”.
The news was released as part of an investigation by the International Consortium of Journalists (ICIJ) in alliance with Expresso, after BuzzFeed News obtained more than 2,000 confidential bank documents, in a leak known as “FinCEN Archives.”
Isabel do Santos and her husband were the subject of suspicious activity reports in 2013 in the US.
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