Biography
Isabelle Santos's shower grew in luxury, but she sought to succeed in hard work. It became famous as a talented investor, a successful entrepreneur and a billionaire from one of the poorest countries of the world.Childhood and youth
Isabelle Santos shower was born on April 20, 1973 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. At that time, the republic was part of the Soviet Union. The exotic appearance of the girl became the result of the marriage of her African father and Russian mother. Parents met while studying in Azerbaijan University and shortly after birth, daughters moved to Luanda, the capital of Angola.
Father Isabel, Jose Eduard Santos Santos, was a representative of the ruling MPLA party and after the death of the President of the country turned out to be in power. He had to be divorced with his wife Tatyana Kukanova, because then the local elite, the creation of a family with a white woman was not welcomed. A man retained a warm relationship with his daughter, who was his favorite and the main heir.
When civil war began in Angola, Tatiana took Isabelle to London, where the business was built in the field of beauty. The girl attended the Saint Paul's school and had already demonstrated an amazing enterprise in those years, engaged in selling farm eggs. After school, she entered the Royal College, where he studied electrical engineering.
Personal life
To establish personal life Isabelle helped visiting the exhibition works of art, there she met the future husband, Cindica Campo collector. Lovers got married in 2002, spending about € 3 million at the ceremony. At the celebration, the leaders of the friendly Angola of states were attended, and musical accompaniment provided a choir from Belgium.After 10 years, the spouses not less magnificently celebrated the anniversary of their lives. The celebration took place in the fortress of San Miguel, then smoothly moved to Musdulo Island and lasted almost 3 days. Over the years of Happy Marriage, the couple managed to acquire 3 children.
Career
When the civil war in Angola is over, Santos's souls decided to move closer to his father. The girl settled in Luanda and began working as an engineer manager at Urbana 2000, who won the tender for cleaning the city. Later, she invested money in the development of their own business and opened the Miami Beach Club club. And her interest in telecommunications led to the founding of Unitel, which became the largest mobile operator in the country.
In subsequent years, the main sphere of interests of the young business woman had investments. Isabella has become the owner of Banco Bic and Banco BPI banks, as well as cable TV ZON MULTIMEDIA. The entrepreneur has a network of supermarkets of Candando. In addition, at its disposal-value assets in Portugal, including Banco Português de Investimento.
The state of Santos's shower rose to € 2.2 billion. Forbes included an investor in the rating of the richest people in Africa, where she took the leading position among women. But the fame had a reverse side, because the girl was repeatedly accused of wastefulness and love for luxury. Isabelle arranged lush celebrations, while the overwhelming majority of the Angola population lived below the poverty line.
A business woman has repeatedly denied the information that there is a merit of an influential father in her successes. She created an image of a business, hard working woman who uses the mind to make profitable investments. But in 2016, it was from the filing Jose Isabel, became the head of the Board of Directors of Sonangol, the largest oil company Angola.
The fairy tale ended too unexpectedly, when in 2017 Father Isabel resigned after 38 years of government, and Zhuan Laurence took his place. The new president made it its main goal to combat corruption and the first job sent a business lady Jose Filoman under the trial, who managed the sovereign foundation. And then switched to it.
But by that time, Santos's shower had already managed to leave Angola, which was called unsafe place due to rampant crime. In 2019, the news appeared that by the decision of the court, the Angolan accounts women fell under arrest. She herself refused to appear for interrogation in Luanda.
The reason for such strict preventive measures were charged with financial fraud and remove money in offshore. According to the press, being the head of Sonangol, Isabelle was engaged in registration of transactions with dubious firms. She also counted their repayment of the loan taken from the company, not to take into account interest accumulated over the years.
In turn, the spouse of the entrepreneur was involved in fraud. He concluded an agreement with Sodiam on the joint purchase of Shares of Brand De Grisogono. Under the terms of the contract, the transaction was supposed to be paid by both parties in equal shares, but in the end all expenses the company covered Angola from the state budget. It became known after the publication of the results of the journalistic investigation.
The billionaire charges rejected, saying that the President of Angola slanders her and engaged in "witch hunting". According to Isabel, Zhuan Lorens seeks to eliminate all supporters of her father who can claim power. She also called the nomination of his candidacy in the presidential election in 2022.
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In 2020, it became known about the presence of Russian citizenship in Isabelle. This fact of the biography protects it from extradition, since Russia did not conclude an agreement with Angola on the mandatory issuance of citizens in case of their criminal prosecution, but makes it impossible to participate in the Angolan elections. Now the trial in the case of Santos Santos continues, gaining new revs.