The Angolan president admitted on June 28 in Lisbon that “it is almost impossible to recover 100% of embezzled public funds, but said that he will continue to work in this direction.” © Photo: CIPRA Joao Lourenco also said that he In 1945, he accomplished something that had not b

The Angolan president admitted on 28 June in Lisbon that “it is almost impossible to recover 100% of embezzled public funds, but said that he will continue to work in this direction.”

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Joao Lourenco He also said that in four or five years he had accomplished something that had not been done in more than forty years since the country's independence. "The judicial system has never had so much freedom to deliver justice."

On the same day, the President also stated that Angola ’s fight against corruption covers all levels from the grassroots to the top, and that is what the country is doing. Angola’s judiciary is taking action at all levels: “not just going after ministers and ex-ministers, directors and ex-directors.”

In the interview, Joao Lourenco also clarified that his relationship with his predecessor was “good” and that the Angolan judicial system The operation was not aimed at the Dos Santos family but at corruption, he said: “We had a good relationship, we had several meetings during this period and almost every time it was me who went to meet José Eduardo Dos. Santos . It's obvious that we have a good relationship."