Angola seized and confiscated luxury goods such as airplanes, buildings on Wall Street and Dubai and a Lamborghini, but also a soccer training center and a spa, as part of the fight against corruption.

These goods and assets, which are not yet being managed by the Angolan government, pending a final court decision, are on the updated list available at website of the Angolan Attorney General's Officeseparated by seized, seized and recovered assets.

The list, consulted by Lusa, shows 219 goods and assets recovered, 167 seized and 521 confiscated, including more than 500 million euros in cash in Portugal, where Angola is expected to manage several properties in Lisbon, Porto and Santarém, an apartment in Rio de Mouro, on the outskirts of the capital, and villas in the Algarve, among others, if it wins the court cases.

The PGR website lists the description of the asset, the value, the trustee, the current situation and the year, without specifying who the previous owner was. For example, among the assets seized are 30 watches worth 2.6 billion dollars that have been 'in the custody of the trustee', Banco Nacional de Angola, since 2021, or the Tambarino condominium in Benguela, worth 138 million dollars, whose trustee is Banco de Poupança e Crédito.

Among the seized assets is a Lamborghini, seized in 2021, which, like dozens of other luxury brand vehicles, yachts, trucks, motorcycles, trailers and jeeps, is still awaiting evaluation.

In addition to the vehicles, Angola has also seized, as part of the fight against corruption, trucks, schools, villas in the Algarve, luxury apartments in Lisbon, Cascais and Santarém, a parking lot in Huíla, dozens of hotels, a treatment center and spa, a hemodialysis center in Luanda, 49% of Standard Bank shares in Angola (worth 117 million euros) and even a soccer training center in Cacuaco, which is assigned to a public institution.

Among the assets seized by the Angolan authorities are, according to the list available on the PGR website, several aircraft, a hotel in China valued at 25 million dollars, two buildings worth 130 million dollars in Singapore, as well as the most valuable asset on the list, the four-storey building at 23 Wall Street, valued at 450 million dollars, seized last year, and whose trustee is China Sonangol International.

This is, of course, in addition to many millions of dollars, pounds, euros and kwanzas, of which more than 500 million euros have been seized in Portugal, in seizures ranging from 484 euros to very significant amounts, with unique values of 51.9 million euros, 71.9 million euros or 102.6 million euros, the most valuable single seizure in Portugal on the list of seized assets, available on the PGR website.

Among the assets seized are also 26% of NOS shares, which join 42.5% of Banco Euro BIC shares, 51% of Banco Fomento Angola shares and 42.5% of Banco BIC shares, whose trustees are the companies' boards of directors.

The list from the National Asset Recovery Service (Senra), published on Monday, includes 219 goods and assets that have been recovered, seized or arrested, some of which are related to cases that are still ongoing, for a total of 19 billion dollars.

Of these, 7 billion dollars correspond to recovered assets and around 12 billion were seized or confiscated.

Last week, the Director of the National Asset Recovery Service (Senra), Eduarda Rodrigues, said that in the last two years an additional 24 billion dollars had been identified in the cases under investigation regarding asset recovery, a sum that now stands at 70 billion dollars. (dw)