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Global Companies Find Themselves Ensnared in Angolan Corruption Case

Salem Solomon

   WASHINGTON - As he faces charges of misusing more than $1 billion in
   state funds, the husband of Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos
   defended himself by pointing to the couple's accounting firm. Sindika
   Dokolo said if people do not trust his version of events, they should
   just ask the renowned global accounting firm PwC, which handled the
   couple's accounting and gave them tax advice.

   "We've been working with only Triple-A partners, including our auditors
   ' -- and our auditors, in this case, are PwC,"said Dokolo in a recent
   studio interview with VOA in Washington.

   Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of former Angolan President Jose
   Eduardo dos Santos, similarly maintains her innocence, saying she ran
   businesses that operated on the world stage and abided by the highest
   standards. "When you are a child of the president, you can't hide. The
   lights are just too bright. You have a lot of attention, a lot of
   scrutiny. So I took the decision to be transparent,"she said in a Skype
   interview with VOA.

   But PwC and other firms are now distancing themselves from the couple,
   who have had their assets frozen inside Angola. After the senior dos
   Santos left power in 2017, his successor, Joao Lourenco, announced a
   crackdown on corruption. Part of this effort was bringing charges
   against the dos Santos family, which Angola's attorney general believes
   looted more than one billion dollars in state funds.
   

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