{"id":25978,"date":"2020-01-16T09:05:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T09:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=25978"},"modified":"2020-01-20T09:07:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T09:07:38","slug":"angola-is-africas-richest-woman-a-russian-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/angola-is-africas-richest-woman-a-russian-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Is Africa\u2019s Richest Woman a Russian Citizen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Jan. 9, the Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported that Isabel dos Santos <\/a>\u2013 the daughter of Angola\u2019s former president Jos\u00e9 Eduardo dos Santos once ranked by Forbes magazine as Africa\u2019s richest woman <\/a>\u2013 is a citizen of Russia.<\/p>\n

Isabel dos Santos\u2019s ties to Russia have been the subject of journalistic investigations<\/a> for nearly a decade. But the issue heated up more recently with corruption allegations made by the Angolan government against dos Santos, her husband and another businessman. She has been living outside Angola for several years; in December, an Angolan court froze her assets. <\/a><\/p>\n

Reuters<\/a> cited a court document alleging that dos Santos and the others were responsible for more than $1 billion in losses to the state. Dos Santos and an associate were accused of attempting to transfer 10 million euros to Russia.<\/p>\n

Portuguese news outlets including the Jornal Econ\u00f3mico<\/a> and Expresso<\/a> reported this month that dos Santos did business with the Russian state oil giant Rosneft in several countries, including Mozambique, Iraq and Turkey. She also owns a 25 percent stake in Nafta, an oil and gas company in Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n

The ability to claim Russian citizenship could prove important to dos Santos in order to protect her foreign assets from being seized by the Angolan government. Russia protects<\/a> its citizens and assets from foreign or international prosecution under Article 61 of its constitution.<\/p>\n

Read further: https:\/\/www.polygraph.info\/a\/angola-isabel-dos-santos-russian\/30381700.html<\/a><\/p>\n

[Polygraph.info<\/a> is a fact-checking website produced by Voice of America<\/a> (VOA)\u200b and Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Jan. 9, the Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported that Isabel dos Santos \u2013 the daughter of Angola\u2019s former president Jos\u00e9 Eduardo dos Santos once ranked by Forbes magazine as Africa\u2019s richest woman \u2013 is a citizen of Russia. Isabel dos Santos\u2019s ties to Russia have been the subject of journalistic investigations for nearly […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-angola","type-news-articles","item-year-668","item-theme-nationality-of-politicians"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25979,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25978\/revisions\/25979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}