Angola Jails Ex-President’s Son for Five Years After Graft Trial
- Trial focused on $500 million transfer from Angola to U.K.
- Former central bank governor was handed eight-year sentence
Jose Filomeno dos Santos in the high court.
Photographer: Joao Da Fatima/AFP via Getty Images
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An Angolan court jailed a son of the nation’s former president, making him the most high-profile figure linked to the previous regime to be imprisoned for corruption.
Supreme Court Judge Joao Pitra sentenced Jose Filomeno dos Santos to five years in prison after finding him guilty of embezzlement and fraud, in a judgment delivered Friday in the capital, Luanda.