Africa-Press – Angola. The Constitutional Court (TC) declared the unconstitutionality of the ruling that condemned the former governor of the National Bank of Angola (BNA), Valter Filipe, and the former president of the Sovereign Fund, José Filomeno dos Santos.
The two, together with Jorge Gaudens Sebastião and António Bule Manuel, according to the Judgment sent this Thursday, were convicted in the second instance by the Supreme Court, for committing the crimes of embezzlement, fraud through fraud and trafficking in influence all in a continuous manner, with sentences of five to eight years in prison.
Those targeted were also ordered to pay a fine and compensation to the State in the amount of five million kwanzas as moral damages and eight million, 512 thousand and 500 US dollars, as lost profits and consequential damages.
The TC Ruling highlights that it declares unconstitutional the decision in Case no. 135/20, also known as “case 500 million”, due to violation of the principles of legality, contradictory, fair and compliant trial and the right to defense.
Among the various arguments of the 10 TC advisory judges who signed the ruling is the non-acceptance of “relevant documentary evidence”.
It states that it is “unappealable” and puts an end to a process that has been going on since 2019, when the case began to be judged.
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