Africa-Press – Angola. Fourteen vehicles valued at more than one million dollars were, Thursday night, removed from a dealership in the Tchioco neighbourhood, on the outskirts of Lubango, Huíla, within the framework of the Law on Coercive Repatriation and Extended Loss of Assets, after auction.
This is an operation, according to a source from the National Asset Recovery Service (SENRA) of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), which involved the removal of assets from the company Samoma BIG Limitada, listed in the “Major Lussati” case.
The alleged involvement of the aforementioned commercial company in the “Lussati Case” dates back to July 2021, when the establishment was the subject of searches and seizure ordered by the National Asset Recovery Service, on the grounds that it would have benefited from resources diverted by the citizen José Tchiwana, defendant in the said proceeding.
Since the start of the aforementioned criminal process and having been involved in it, the owner, Jacinto Inácio Samoma, said, in an interview with Rádio Nacional de Angola, that he had never been heard during the investigation of the process.
According to the PGR, the company Samoma BIG Lda, a commercial establishment for the sale of cars, created in 2011 by Inâcio Samoma, “is a third party in bad faith”, according to Law n.o 15/18, of December 26, on Enforced Repatriation and Extended Confiscation of Assets.
The main defendant in the case, Pedro Lussati, was sentenced, on November 10, 2022, to 14 years in prison and 100 days of fine for the crimes of embezzlement, fraud in the transport of currency and money laundering.
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