# Luanda Provincial Court freezes Isabel dos Santos’s Angolan assets Date: 2019 ## The fact On 23 December 2019 the Luanda Provincial Court froze Angolan bank accounts and company stakes of Isabel dos Santos, Sindika Dokolo, and Mário Leite da Silva. Reuters recorded that the court document said the state believed transfers had caused losses of more than $1 billion. The billion-plus figure is the court’s allegation. It is not Contribution.size. ## Context He is president. The court wrote. Isabel called it politically motivated. She is unresolved. 15 November 2017 Sonangol dismissal; 23 December 2019 freeze. Stored as one 23 December 2019 Fact. Keep Luanda Provincial Court freezes Isabel dos Santos’s Angolan assets on 2019-12-23 separate from neighbouring Sonangol, freeze, CNE, and Court instruments. The president of Angola is head of state and can dismiss a Sonangol chair, accept a CNE return, and be the beneficiary of a Constitutional Court ruling. He does not sit as a Luanda Provincial Court judge or as a CNE teller, and he does not invent a unique recovered-dollar integer here. ## Evidence and sources Reuters (recording the court document) carries the official instrument or communique. ICIJ records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [institutional corruption](/drivers/institutional-corruption): a completed court freeze whose alleged-loss figure is not stored as Contribution.size. ## What is established and what is not Established: The Luanda Provincial Court froze named Angolan assets on 23 December 2019. Reuters recorded the court’s more-than-$1-billion allegation. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. His government pursued the case. Sharing the bench is not a reason to drop 23 December 2019, and not a reason to invent size.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Luanda Provincial Court freezes Isabel dos Santos’s Angolan assets, not a later speech about Luanda Provincial Court freezes Isabel dos Santos’s Angolan assets. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Luanda Provincial Court freezes Isabel dos Santos’s Angolan assets on 2019-12-23 is not a licence to treat every later Reuters (recording the court document) communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Luanda Provincial Court freezes Isabel dos Santos’s Angolan assets into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The court wrote. His government pursued the case. Sharing the bench is not a reason to drop 23 December 2019, and not a reason to invent size. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - João Lourenço: https://factrail.ai/people/joao-lourenco ## Drivers - Lourenço MPLA oil governance: https://factrail.ai/drivers/lourenco-mpla-oil-governance ## Sources - https://www.icij.org/investigations/luanda-leaks/luanda-leaks-reveals-thousands-forced-at-gunpoint-from-fishing-community-at-site-of-dos-santos-project/ - https://www.reuters.com/article/world/angola-hits-princess-dos-santos-with-asset-freeze-idUSKBN1YZ0IA/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ao-lourenco-isabel-freeze-2019