Interpol confirms red notice for Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos - Reuters.com

LISBON, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Global constabulary bureau Interpol confirmed connected Wednesday it had issued a reddish announcement for Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, girl of the country's erstwhile president, asking planetary instrumentality enforcement authorities to find and provisionally apprehension her.

Dos Santos, who has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, has faced corruption accusations for years, including allegations by Angola successful 2020 that she and her hubby had steered $1 cardinal successful authorities funds to companies successful which they held stakes during her father's presidency, including from lipid elephantine Sonangol.

Portugal's Lusa quality bureau reported connected Nov. 18 that Interpol had issued an planetary apprehension warrant for dos Santos. But Interpol told Reuters it had issued a reddish announcement alternatively astatine the petition of Angolan authorities.

It explained that a reddish announcement was "not an planetary apprehension warrant" but a "request to instrumentality enforcement worldwide to find and provisionally apprehension a idiosyncratic pending extradition, surrender, oregon akin ineligible action".

A root adjacent to dos Santos said connected Nov. 19 that she had yet to beryllium notified by Interpol. A spokesperson for dos Santos did not instantly reply to a Reuters petition for comment.

According to Lusa, an authoritative papers related to the petition made to Interpol mentions that dos Santos is often successful Portugal, Britain and the United Arab Emirates.

The aforesaid papers cited by Lusa said dos Santos, 49, was wanted for assorted crimes, including alleged embezzlement, fraud, power peddling and wealth laundering.

Dos Santos has fixed interviews recently, telling CNN Portugal connected Tuesday the courts successful Angola were not independent" and judges determination were "used to fulfil a governmental agenda".

Reporting by Catarina Demony and Patricia Rua; editing by Aislinn Laing and Mark Heinrich

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