Interpol confirms crimson discover for Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Isabel Dos Santos, daughter of Angola’s former President and Africa’s richest lady, sits for a portrait throughout a Reuters interview in London, Britain, January 9, 2020. Image taken on January 9. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photograph

LISBON (Reuters) – International police company Interpol confirmed on Wednesday it had issued a crimson discover for Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, daughter of the nation’s former president, asking international regulation enforcement authorities to find and provisionally arrest her.

Dos Santos, who has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, has confronted corruption accusations for years, together with allegations by Angola in 2020 that she and her husband had steered $1 billion in state funds to corporations wherein they held stakes throughout her father’s presidency, together with from oil large Sonangol.

Portugal’s Lusa information company reported on Nov. 18 that Interpol had issued a global arrest warrant for dos Santos. However Interpol instructed Reuters it had issued a crimson discover as an alternative on the request of Angolan authorities.

It defined {that a} crimson discover was “not a global arrest warrant” however a “request to regulation enforcement worldwide to find and provisionally arrest an individual pending extradition, give up, or comparable authorized motion”.

A supply near dos Santos mentioned on Nov. 19 that she had but to be notified by Interpol. A spokesperson for dos Santos didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.

In line with Lusa, an official doc associated to the request made to Interpol mentions that dos Santos is usually in Portugal, Britain and the United Arab Emirates.

The identical doc cited by Lusa mentioned dos Santos, 49, was wished for numerous crimes, together with alleged embezzlement, fraud, affect peddling and cash laundering.

Dos Santos has given interviews lately, telling CNN Portugal on Tuesday the courts in Angola weren’t impartial” and judges there have been “used to fulfil a political agenda”.