The daughter of former Angolan president, José Eduardo dos Santos, married to Sindika Dokolo, indicated that before the funeral ceremonies, a prayer will take place on Thursday in memory of the businessman. “The ceremony in honor of his life will take place on November 5, 2020, at 16:00 in Jumeirah, Dubai“, where the family currently resides and where the businessman lost his life last Thursday, in a diving accident, wrote Isabel dos Santos.
The funeral mass will take place on November 17 at the Westminster Cathedral in London (at 10:30 am) and at 9:00 am at the National Museum of the Congo, in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo) and in Luanda, said the Angolan businesswoman, in Portuguese, English and French. The location of the ceremony was not indicated in the Angolan capital. Isabel dos Santos also thanked, on behalf of the family, “for the support” that has been given to them, “crucial” to help endure this pain.
“It has been very difficult to accept this unexpected loss and your words fill our hearts“, acknowledged the businesswoman. Sindika Dokolo, businessman and art collector, was married since 2002 to Isabel dos Santos, of whom she had four children.
He was born in 1972 in the former Zaire, present-day Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), son of banker Augustin Dokolo Sanu, and his second wife, the Danish Hanne Taabbel. Critic of President Joseph Kabila’s nearly 20 years in the DRC, Sindika Dokolo spent about five years in exile due to the lawsuits brought against him in Kinshasa, returning to the country in May 2019, months after the presidential victory of opponent Félix Tshisekedi in December 2018.
The couple is suspected of having harmed the Angolan State in millions of dollars and was targeted in December 2019 for seizure of assets and stakes in companies, as determined by the Luanda Provincial Court. Both have always denied the charges.
Sindika Dokolo died while practicing a form of diving, locally known as ‘al-hivari’, which does not use breathing equipment and is based on the exclusive use of the air in the lungs. Dubai police have however declared that they do not suspect any “criminal act” in the businessman’s death.
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