This Monday, in the Administrative Court of Círculo de Lisboa, a judicial action by Isabel dos Santos against Banco de Portugal, because of the participation that the Angolan businesswoman holds in EuroBic.
Isabel dos Santos decided to proceed with the administrative action to try to recover her right to vote at the EuroBic bank, according to the news in the Portuguese press.
The lawsuit filed by the Angolan businesswoman has EuroBic and the companies Finisantoro Holding Limited and Santoro Financial Holding as counterparties, through which the daughter of former President José Eduardo dos Santos holds a 42.5% stake in Banco BIC Português.
Meanwhile, Lebanese investor Roger Tamraz has already offered more than 143 million euros for 47.5% of Eurobic: the 42.5% owned by Isabel dos Santos and the 5% owned by Sebastião Lavrador, as recalled by Jornal Económico .
In October, the Angolan businesswoman had already filed a precautionary lawsuit against Banco de Portugal, also with the same counter-interested parties.
Banks also complain
On Christmas Day (25.12), three Portuguese banks had also filed a new lawsuit, this time against the Maltese holding Winterfell Industries of the Angolan businesswoman. The lawsuit in question was filed by Novo Banco, Caixa Geral de Depósitos, and BCP, which revealed the Portuguese weekly Expresso .
The trio of banks claims 26.39 million euros that will have been loaned under the deal to purchase part of Efacec in 2015, Isabel dos Santos and Winterfell Industries, from Malta. The participation of the businesswoman in Efacec was nationalized due to the “Luanda Leaks” case, which is about to complete a year.
On January 19, 2020, the International Investigative Journalism Consortium revealed more than 715 thousand files on alleged financial schemes that may have allowed Isabel dos Santos and her husband, Sindika Dokolo, who has since died, to divert money from the Angolan public purse through havens tax.
Following the “Luanda Leaks”, and after pressure from Portugal and also from Angola, the millionaire ended up for sale her stake in the bank EuroBic and Efacec, in addition to other companies.
After failing to sell Abanca to the Spaniards, “the Angolan businesswoman has already reached an agreement with Libyan businessman Roger Tamraz to divest her position in a business where EuroBic is valued at 60% of equity,” writes the ECO newspaper.
