Isabel dos Santos is Africa’s richest woman, worth an estimated $3 billion. She has amassed a global empire of businesses, luxury apartments, and artwork, and built a reputation as a self-made woman who succeeded through hard work and determination.
But reporting by investigative journalists has revealed she may have used secrecy and her government connections to help amass her fortune. Those connections included her father, who was president of Angola for 38 years until he stepped down in 2017. Dos...
Joseph Kraus
For more than a decade, Teodorin Obiang, the eldest son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, held a modest government post in his native country that paid him US$80,000 a year. But according to the US Department of Justice, Obiang siphoned off $300 million through corruption and money laundering to finance luxury purchases in the US, including a $30 million seaside mansion in Malibu, California, and a $38.5 million Gulfstream jet. He even purchased Michael Jackson’s Thriller Jacket and...