Angolan authorities have opened criminal proceedings against the former Angolan vice president (and former president of national oil company Sonangol) Manuel Vicente, a source from Angola’s public prosecutor’s office said today. Vicente enjoyed legal immunity for five years after his departure from the Angolan government, which meant that he never had to answer charges in Portugal for his ‘corruption’ of a Portuguese prosecutor who ended up in jail because the case was seen as a ‘slam dunk’. The proceedings opened in Angola are not only about Vicente’s role in ‘corrupting in Portugal’, they will have to do with suspicions of corruption and money laundering in Sonangol – during the time the Angolan president’s daughter, Isabel dos Santos, was part of the company’s management.
Investigations target former Angolan vice-president Manuel Vicente
Immunity from prosecution has run out. What might be in store for Manuel Vicente? Image: Lusa
