Businessman and Congolese opponent Sindika Dokolo has died, we have learned from several relatives. Isabel Dos Santos’ husband lived in Dubai, he died on Thursday, October 29 after an accident. For a year he had had legal problems with his adopted country, Angola, who had seized his property and his wife and accused him of embezzlement. But in his native Congo, he was among the figures of the opposition.
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Messages are multiplied on social networks. Son of Augustin Dokolo, the first private banker in Zaire, Sindika Dokolo had become known by opposition parties and civil society for his struggle against a third term by Joseph Kabila.
Always elegant and easily accessible, in 2017 he even founded a civic movement, the Congolese status, and financially supported other organizations and personalities financially.
In Europe, Sindika Dokolo is known as an African art collector. He fought for these stolen works or objects to be returned to African museums and was interviewed by the major media for this fight.
He grew up in Europe and changed when in 2002 he married Isabel dos Santos, daughter of the Angolan president, the almighty and extremely wealthy Jose Eduardo dos Santos. Together, they multiply business, crude oil, diamonds, cement, distribution, telephony.
The couple is everywhere, even in the evenings in Cannes, arranged by jewels de Grisogono, where they ended up taking shares, always invited to larger business meetings despite the queries that multiply about the origin. of their fortune and the leadership of the Angolan regime. At the age of 48, Sindika Dokolo died Thursday in Dubai, according to his relatives, after an accident.
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