Africa-Press – Angola. The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) announced this Monday in Luanda that it will start publishing all the information regarding the recovery of State assets embezzled abroad and within the country on a website, in the name of transparency.
The initiative will provide transparency to the process and expand access to information, assured the director of the National Asset Recovery Service (SENRA), part of the PGR, Eduarda Rodrigues, speaking to Rádio Nacional de Angola (RNA).
According to the director, the country has recovered many goods that were diverted, and, from the outset, this information should be available on a website that is being improved.
“It is a work that is being concluded, therefore, it will soon be made public. Our website is being finished and we are preparing exactly all that to be public. We are talking about money and recovered goods. We have been recover many assets”, said Eduarda Rodrigues.
The idea, he added, also aims to provide greater clarity in the management of assets recovered by the State and allow anyone to have access to information on recovery, their location and who was assigned management. “This is a question of clarity and to try to justify, or rather, to present specific data to the State. Therefore, that is the objective”, he stressed.
The Deputy Attorney General of the Republic also made it known that when SENRA makes a recovery, it is delivered to a trustee.
In this sense, he underlined, the amounts are deposited at the National Bank of Angola (BNA), the goods are delivered, for example, to the State General Coffer or to the State General Institute of Assets and Participations, depending, he explained, on the nature of the good. . In April of the current year, the Attorney General’s Office informed, through the National Asset Recovery Service, that up to that date, six billion American dollars had been recovered and 21 billion USD in assets in the country had been seized, half of which abroad.
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