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...Dino was a military adviser to Angola’s former president José Eduardo dos Santos and one of the most powerful businessmen in the southern African oil-producing nation during the final decade of the leader...
...In total, 172 of the 189 charges brought against 28 individuals and companies were dismissed, including most charges against Ricardo Salgado, the former head of Banco Espírito Santo, who was alleged to have...
...The most dramatic evidence of reconciliation was the return to Angola in September of José Eduardo dos Santos, after 30 months in exile in Spain....
...Ricardo Espírito Santo Salgado, who was chief executive of Banco Espírito Santo (BES) between 1991 and 2014, is accused of 65 offences, according to a 4,100-page document from state prosecutors that was...
...Mr Lourenço estimates the scale of the looting to amount to at least $24bn — an assertion that signals the next phase in his struggle against allies of José Eduardo dos Santos, who for decades presided over...
...Isabel dos Santos, Africa’s richest woman and the daughter of Angola’s former president José Eduardo dos Santos, has moved her residence and that of several of her companies to Dubai....
...More concretely, Mr Lourenço has waged a public war on corruption that has ensnared some of the former president’s children, including one of his sons, José Filomeno dos Santos, who had been put in control...
...The new administration of President João Lourenço, who replaced José Eduardo dos Santos last year, has sought to restore economic stability, which deteriorated badly in the final years of Mr dos Santos’s...
...Although Lourenço replaced former strongman of 38 years, José Eduardo dos Santos, as president last September, he did not take over the leadership of the ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola...
...When Forbes unveiled its ranking of the world’s 100 most powerful women this month, the only African to make the list was Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of José dos Santos, Angola’s president for nearly...
...Her brother, José Filomeno dos Santos, is head of Angola’s sovereign wealth fund....
...The accused include Ricardo Espírito Santo Salgado, former chief executive of Banco Espírito Santo, the lender that collapsed in 2014, and Zeinal Bava and Henrique Granadeiro, former chief executives of...
...After nearly 38 years running Angola, President José Eduardo dos Santos is calling it a day....
...A few metres on, he pointed out the family house of Ricardo Palmera....
...Colombia: Corruption is a top concern ahead of Colombia’s May 27 presidential vote amid allegations that Odebrecht funded the 2014 election campaigns of President Juan Manuel Santos and his main rival Óscar...
...Her brother, José Filomeno dos Santos, has managed Angola’s sovereign wealth fund since 2013....
...José Eduardo dos Santos, Angola’s president since 1979 and constitutionally allowed to stay in power until 2022, made the surprise announcement on Friday that he would leave “active political life” in 2018...
...After being held for more than four months at his villa on the wind-swept Atlantic coast near Lisbon, Ricardo Espírito Santo Salgado, patriarch of the ruined business empire that bears his name, was released...
...José Sócrates, the former Socialist prime minister, and Ricardo Espírito Santo Salgado, once Portugal’s most eminent banker, have fallen from the pinnacles of prestigious careers to be made formal suspects...
...After six months of hearings into a case that is estimated to have left investors with €10bn of losses, the commission said in its preliminary findings that Ricardo Espírito Santo Salgado was “probably involved...
...It took Ricardo Espírito Santo Salgado almost two decades to win back ownership of his family’s bank....
...Other recent corruption investigations in Portugal have led to the detention for several hours of Ricardo Espírito Santo Salgado, the patriarch of Portugal’s distressed Espírito Santo business empire, as...
...Among premises raided was the home of Ricardo Espírito Santo Salgado, the former chief executive and once the country’s most powerful banker....
...Mr Bento, a respected economist and company manager, was appointed by the central bank in July to replace Ricardo Espírito Santo Salgado, who had been forced to quit after 22 years as CEO....
...Another case saw Ricardo Espírito Santo Salgado, head of the 145-year-old banking dynasty, released on bail of €3m after being made an official suspect in an investigation into tax evasion....
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