Angolan court hands ex-president Dos Santos' son five years for fraud
Jose Filomeno dos Santos (left), the son of former Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, appears in the High Court on corruption charges in Luanda on December 9, 2019.
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What you need to know:
- Dos Santos was in charge of the fund from 2013 to 2018.
Angola's Supreme Court on Friday handed a five-year jail sentence to Jose Filomeno dos Santos, the son of the oil-rich country's former president, for fraud when he headed the national sovereign wealth fund.
"For the crime of fraud... and for the crime of peddling influence... the legal cumulus condemns him to a single sentence of five years in prison," judge Joao da Cruz Pitra said.
Dos Santos was in charge of the fund from 2013 to 2018.
