In a series of leaks, Luanda Leaks is the latest one. The energetic team of investigators from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists unmasked how billionaire Isabel dos Santos (Isabel dos Santos is an Angolan businesswoman, Africa's richest woman and the eldest child of Angola's former President José Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled the country from 1979 to 2017.
Isabel dos Santos
In 2013, according to Forbes, her net worth had exceeded US$2 billion making her Africa's first female US dollar billionaire – Source : Wikipedia) accumulated wealth through public contacts, handouts and insider deals while her father José Eduardo dos Santos ruled Angola.
ICIJ and its 36 media partners’ painstaking traced Isabel’s business dealings from Angola to Europe, Dubai to Brazil and beyond. In this process, the Investigative Journalists collaborated with more than 120 journalists in 20 countries around the world to comb through a trove of more than 700,000 leaked emails, contracts and other documents related to the sprawling business empire of Isabel dos Santos and they uncovered the western professional advisers who played a key role. Though, her lawyers denied all the allegations of wrongdoing. Still, they can’t hide everything. Kindly look at the Luanda Leaks stores from ICIJ partners around the globe emerged. The investigative reporters from Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Luxembourg, Malta, Mauritius, The Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States. This is a clear indication of the age-old adage ‘Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. In most of the places, the investigation is at a very early stage. It may take several months or a few years for the agencies to uncover everything.
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