Mosquito: Isabel dos Santos Proxy
África Monitor reported in its March 4 edition on two investments made recently in Portugal by the Angolan businessman António Mosquito: investments that were shown to be initiatives of Isabel dos Santos. According to the publication, Isabel dos Santos chose not to reveal her self as the buyer of the purchase of 66.7 percent of the construction company Soares da Costa and of 27.5 percent of Controlinveste, a media conglomerate that owns the daily paper Diário de Notícias and the radio station TSF. António Mosquito became chairman of Soares da Costa, and through his Grupo António Mosquito (GAM) invested 70 million (US$ 96.1 million) in the business. Regarding the Controlinveste deal there is no information available about the size of the Angolan investment, which was made alongside an investment by Luís Montez, the son-in-law of the Portuguese President Aníbal Cavaco Silva. The report by journalist Xavier […]
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