Isabel dos Santos

And I feel like now, Lorenzo, one of the key things he's done is obviously tried to depower Senegal.

He's tried to break up those patronage networks, you know, with the likes of Isabel de Santos and Manolo Vicente.

But I think there's still a question there about Senegal.

You know, there were talks about it being privatized.

So obviously there's been some anti-corruption enforcement in place.

There's been a lot of investigations into Dos Santos' former associates and family members.

the likes of Isabel de Santos, there were huge investigations into her and Manuela Vicente and other associates like General Dino, General Copalipa.

I think it'd be interesting to reflect more on whether those were indeed well-intentioned investigations, whether you think there could have been a political backdrop to that as well.

It ramped back up quickly, but the effects of a shortage like this could be at least nine months away.

It's been a year for Africa's richest woman, Isabel dos Santos.

She's the eldest daughter of Angola's former longtime leader, José Eduardo dos Santos, and in January was charged with embezzlement and laundering more than $1 billion from her native country.

Then, in October, her husband died in, reportedly, a diving accident off the coast of Dubai.

I don't know how anyone can deny that fact at this point.

This happened for transactions tied to Isabel Dos Santos, which Standard Chartered flagged as part of a report about various companies called Unitel.

Thanks to our previous Luanda Leaks investigation, we were able to identify the transactions that were relevant to the Unitel company, partly owned by Isabel Dos Santos, and include this amount in her confidential client's profile.

So, again...

If you're not familiar with all of the leaks that have come before the FinCEN files, I urge you to check them all out.

But six months in, just 220 of those homes had been sold due to the fact that the very working class residents they were built for couldn't afford or finance them.

But the next year, Angola was celebrated the world over as Isabel dos Santos, the president's daughter, had become the first African woman ever to make the Forbes billionaires list with an estimated net worth north of $3 billion.

It wasn't South Africa or Nigeria or any of the continent's other traditional centers of wealth to earn this honor, but rather tiny, scrappy Angola.

Dos Santos owned significant stakes in banks, media companies, and cell providers in Angola and Portugal, a home on the private island of the exclusive Bulgari Resort in Dubai, a $16 million home in the affluent Kensington neighborhood of London, a comparatively modest $1.8 million penthouse apartment in Lisbon, a $55 million villa just steps away from the Casino de Monte-Carlo in Monaco, and to go with it, a $35 million 50 meter 164 foot yacht anchored in the Mediterranean below.

And in 2016, her fortunes, both literal and figurative, only increased as her father fired the entire board of Sonangol, Angola's national oil company, and replaced it with a sole chairwoman.

Isabel dos Santos herself.

She was now in charge of the most powerful company in the country, making her perhaps the country's second most powerful person after her father himself.

However, just months earlier, he had announced his imminent retirement.