# Lourenço removes Isabel dos Santos from Sonangol Date: 2017 ## The fact On 15 November 2017 President [João Lourenço](/people/joao-lourenco) dismissed Isabel dos Santos as chair of Sonangol, the state oil company. The Angolan news agency recorded the firing that afternoon. ## Context He had been inaugurated on 26 September 2017. José Eduardo dos Santos is named in prose and is not minted. Isabel is unresolved. 26 September inauguration; 15 November Sonangol dismissal. Stored as one 15 November 2017 Fact. Keep Lourenço removes Isabel dos Santos from Sonangol on 2017-11-15 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 ICIJ (recording ANGOP) carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is the owned oil-governance driver: a completed removal of the predecessor’s daughter from the state oil company. ## What is established and what is not Established: He dismissed Isabel dos Santos from Sonangol on 15 November 2017. Not established: A unique later recovery integer, or that the dismissal is a criminal conviction. 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. Sharing later prosecution with courts is not a reason to drop 15 November 2017.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Lourenço removes Isabel dos Santos from Sonangol, not a later speech about Lourenço removes Isabel dos Santos from Sonangol. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Lourenço removes Isabel dos Santos from Sonangol on 2017-11-15 is not a licence to treat every later ICIJ (recording ANGOP) 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 Lourenço removes Isabel dos Santos from Sonangol into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He issued the dismissal. Sharing later prosecution with courts is not a reason to drop 15 November 2017. 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.reuters.com/article/world/angola-hits-princess-dos-santos-with-asset-freeze-idUSKBN1YZ0IA/ - https://www.icij.org/investigations/luanda-leaks/how-africas-richest-woman-exploited-family-ties-shell-companies-and-inside-deals-to-build-an-empire/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ao-lourenco-sonangol-2017