Action to curb Isabel dos Santos at Sonangol has already lodged with the court – Express

The injunction suspending the effectiveness of Elizabeth’s possession of Santos as president of the state oil company’s board of directors Sonangol was delivered on Friday, he said Lusa David Mendes, a lawyer and spokesman for the 20 Angolan jurists prepared the action lodged in the Supreme Court, in Luanda.

“on Monday we already pay fees to thereafter be taken [the injunction] the presiding judge, so he can make the first order. we hope that in the next eight days there is an order of receipt or rejection. This is the first step, “said David Mendes, also leader of the civic association Hands Free.

question, explain these lawyers, is the appointment of the Angolan businesswoman for those functions by parent decision and head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, on June 2, and Isabel dos Santos took office four days later.

However, for these lawyers, who worked out in recent days the text of this injunction, signed by 12 of these Angolan lawyers (the remaining eight are outside the country), this appointment violates the Law on public Probity (on the exercise of public functions), 2010 so it will be also made a complaint to the attorney general of the Republic “at the latest by Tuesday.”

According to the lawyer, the main action to move by this group of jurists can only be made after 90 days, claiming the injunction halting already from the effects of the appointment and Isabel possession of Santos.

they claim that “to have allowed his daughter to be named” Angolan President has committed a “public dishonesty”: “He should have refrained, as the law”, previously said lawyer David Mendes.

He added that at the same time “following the rules of the challenge of Administrative Acts”, will present the relevant complaint to the head of government, and then, under the Law on Public Probity, a complaint with the prosecutor -Overall the Republic to open investigation. “

the Angolan President, José Eduardo dos Santos, has appointed businesswoman Isabel dos Santos, daughter, to the President of the board and managing board of non-executive state oil company Sociedade Nacional de Angola fuels (Sonangol), reported June 2, Lusa, the Civil House of the Presidency.

“the law says that the public official should not appoint or allow appointments and contracts when there is intervention of his wife, their first-degree relatives in a straight line and to the second degree of the collateral line. The law itself is imposing this impediment, “he noted, in turn, David Mendes, alluding to the Law on Public Probity, on the exercise of public functions and to curb illicit enrichment.

These lawyers also plan to direct exposure to the Angolan President for this “change its own decision,” recalling that after participation advancing research the appointment decision will be in the hands of the attorney general’s office.

the administration Sonangol, led since 2012 by Francisco de Lemos Jose Maria (chairman of the board of directors), was also relieved of duties last Thursday, with the company to be responsible only for “management and monitoring of oil contracts.”

the appointment of Isabel dos Santos comes under the restructuring of the state-owned company and the Angolan oil sector, a process that had already participated, as confirmed on 22 January, in a statement, the committee dealt with the case, claiming the his experience of 15 years as an entrepreneur.