the daughter off the country's former president isabel dos santos behind me who is africa's richest woman is the daughter off jose eduardo dos santos he says he has as president when mocked by widespread corruption in which billions of dollars of state funds and they didn't went missing. down in 2017 the man he picked to take over from him. launched an anti corruption drive almost immediately after he took office he say's safe to have recovered billions of dollars from abroad not isabel dos santos has said she will use all the instruments of angolan and international law to fight the court order. so are the developments in angola political or is the new president genuity bridging the system of corruption to answer this and other questions we've invited rafael mock is he's an angolan journalist who's been awarded international prizes for his reporting on government corruption he currently heads an anti corruption watchdog in angola welcome to news africa mr mark is the daughter of former president bill santals and has had her assets frozen what is the justification for this the main justification is that she'll sell more than a $100000

she's the daughter of jose eduardo dos santos. for 38 years, hehis rule, much of thela popuon liv in extreme povey while the country was widely reported to be one of the most corrupt in the world. tom burgis is a reporter w's investigated the dos santos family. (audience applauding) >> a lot of the people around jose eduar dos santos have become immensely rich-- family members, generals, sen politicians, people who run the oil industry they have all used those sitions for massive self-enrichment at the cost of the ordinaryngolan. (man introducing dos santos) >> narrator:n 2017, president dos santos steppedown. the new angolan government has now opened a cminal investigation into isabel dos saying that she anher husband are responsible r mo than $1 billion in lost state funds. she denies any wrongdoing and says she is being politically persecuted. >> so all of this boils down to is isabel what she says she is-- self-made billionae-- or is she the creature of a kleptocratic, corrupt dictatorship? >> narrator: for more than six months, "frontline" an