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Scandal over ‘Africa’s Richest Woman’ finds Way to Hong Kong

Angolan daughter’s huge fortune entangled in court squabble over Chinese joint venture

Jan 21, 2020
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By Toh Han Shih

A Hong Kong court dispute sheds light on the secretive dealings of Group Sonangol, the Angolan state-owned oil major formerly headed by Isabel dos Santos, the jet-setting daughter of Angola’s former president, José Eduardo dos Santos, who fought a decades-long civil war for primacy that beggared his country. 

Dos Santos’s vast African hold…

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