Prosecutors in Angola have ramped up pressure on former President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’s family, targeting his son and daughter in an escalating probe into corruption. Just two weeks after Dos Santos’s son went on trial for alleged embezzlement at Angola’s sovereign wealth fund, prosecutors froze his daughter’s assets in a probe into a suspected billion-dollar fraud. President dos Santos, 77, ruled Angola for 38 years — a time widely associated with authoritarianism, corruption and nepotism.
