Luanda — The Attorney General Office (PGR) clarified Tuesday that the seizure of assets of the businesswoman Isabel dos Santos in Angola was decreed in the framework of a precautionary measure, in civil process, and ruled out that it was based on any identification document.

The PGR clarification is a reaction to the information that shows that Angola and Portugal used as proof in the seizure of assets of the Angolan businesswoman a forged passport, with the signature of an already deceased film actor.

In December 2019, the Luanda Provincial Court decreed the preventive seizure of assets of Isabel dos Santos, Sindika Dokolo her husband and Mário Filipe Moreira Leite da Silva, former chairperson of Board of Directors of Banco de Fomento de Angola (BFA).

However, three months later in March 2020 the Portuguese justice took the same measure against Isabel dos Santos in Portugal in the framework of the judiciary process undergoing in Angola.

Regarding to the request related to the seizure of assets in Portugal made under the international judiciary cooperation, the PGR was based on the decision of the Criminal Chamber of Angola Supreme Court from the Process number 01/20 in which was not joined any passport copy.