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Isabel dos Santos is the daughter of Angola’s former president.

Isabel dos Santos did not loot Angola alone

Once again, Western auditing and consulting firms shamelessly facilitated corruption on an international scale

Former president of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos.

Angola’s dos Santos family empire in the firing line

Law enforcement agencies are cracking down on the high profile family of former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos, accused of plundering revenues from the country’s vast…

Jose Filomeno dos Santos, nicknamed Zenu, was appointed head of the $5-billion fund in 2013 by his father, president at the time.

Former Angolan president’s son freed from prison

Jose Filomeno dos Santos was released from prison on Sunday where he had been held for seven months in an embezzlement case

Former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos and his daughter Isabel in the background. (AP)

Angola: The fall of the Dos Santos clan

One year ago, the Dos Santos family handed the Angolan presidency over to João Lourenço. Now the ex-president’s son has been arrested

With a firm grip on the party and a stabilising economy, JLo’s priority will be to stimulate economic growth, create jobs, and improve government delivery. (EPA)

Lourenço’s first year: Angola’s transitional politics

João Lourenço’s first year in office has been marked by notable reforms. If ordinary Angolans are to benefit this momentum must continue

Jose Eduardo dos Santos appointed his son to head Angola’s $5-billion oil-fuelled sovereign fund in 2013

Angola: Ex-president’s son planned to steal $1.5-billion

Jose Filomeno dos Santos planned to siphon off $1.5-billion when he ran Luanda’s sovereign wealth fund, government says.

Jose Filomeno dos Santos was appointed to head the $5-billion oil-fuelled sovereign fund by his father in 2013

Dos Santos’s son charged with fraud

Jose Filomeno dos Santos has been accused of the illegal transfer of $500-million when he was the head of the country’s sovereign wealth fund

Former president of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos.

Angola’s Lourenco keeps pressure on Dos Santos cronies

Lourenco’s manoeuvering against the nepotistical vestiges of Angola’s last president began in November with the toppling of Isabel dos Santos

Jose Filomeno dos Santos, nicknamed Zenu, was appointed head of the $5-billion fund in 2013 by his father, president at the time.

Son of Angola’s ex-president sacked from national investment fund

Jose Filomeno dos Santos, who was implicated in the "Panama Papers" offshore scandal, will be replaced by former finance minister Carlos Alberto Lopes

With a firm grip on the party and a stabilising economy, JLo’s priority will be to stimulate economic growth, create jobs, and improve government delivery. (EPA)

Angolan leader denies tensions with predecessor despite clean-up campaign

In November, within three months of taking control of Angola, Lourenco sacked dos Santos’s daughter — Africa’s richest woman

Street hawkers sell their wares to passing pedestrians on a road near the headquarters of the South African Reserve Bank in Pretoria.

Dos Santos’s retirement fund – his kids

Together, his children Isabel (44) and José Filomeno (39) in effect control Angola’s purse strings

Angola’s oil wealth has spurred it to set up a sovereign wealth fund

‘Blurred lines’ on Angolan wealth fund

The IMF is worried that aspects of the alluring sovereign wealth pool are not clearly outlined.