October 01, 2020 - Public Notice by the Mauritius Financial Services Commission that the corporate disqualification of Jean-Claude Bastos, a Swiss-Angolan businessman, "has been cancelled on the 22nd September 2020 by the Financial Services Review Panel" and that the FSC "being dissatisfied" with the FSRP's decision "has decided to apply to the Supreme Court for a judicial review".
August 26, 2020 - Public Notice by the Mauritius Financial Services Commission that it has disqualified Jean-Claude Bastos, a Swiss-Angolan businessman, from being an officer for five years.
August 05, 2020 - Banco Nacional de Angola, which is the African country's government-owned central bank, has accused two Cayman Islands investment funds - Quantum Global Opportunities Fund SP and Refund Emerging Market Fund SP - of misappropriating $25 million.
August 03, 2020 - Petition by Banco Nacional de Angola, described as "the central bank of Angola" and "owned by the Angolan government", to have receivers appointed for Quantum Global Opportunities Fund SP and Refund Emerging Market Fund SP, described as segregated portfolios of Simplon Capital Ltd. SPC, regarding the alleged misappropriation of $25 million, filed at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.
July 24, 2020 - Complaint regarding "an egregious series of computer hacking activities committed by Angola over an eighteen-month period, resulting in the interception and conversion of AFGC’s attorney-client communications from AFGC's computer server located in the United States" in Africa Growth Corporation, of Nevada v. Republic of Angola at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
May 07, 2020 - Application by SPS Corp I - Fundo de Investimento em Direitos Creditórios Não Padronizados, described as "a Brazilian special purpose fund owned by passive investors and exclusively managed by the company SPS Capital Gestão de Recursos Ltda.", to take discovery from Citibank, N.A., The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, Société Générale, HSBC Bank USA, N.A., BNP Paribas USA, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Barclays Bank, Bank of America, N.A., Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., The Clearing House Payments Company LLC, The Claridge’s Company LLC, Manhattan Skyline Management Corp., Gabrielle Miranda Fischer, LIM College, Katherine Holman, Humphrey Willard, Andrew M. Klinger, Langen & Langen, P.A., Katz & Matz, P.C., and Tellulah LLC for use in legal proceedings in São Paulo, Brazil involving Eduardo Fischer, described as "a well-known figure of the Brazilian advertising industry" who is suspected of "concealing his assets to defraud his creditors" using entities in Angola, Argentina, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Colombia, Delaware, Florida, and Portugal, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
March 16, 2020 - Judgment regarding an application to enforce a $646 million arbitration award in PT Ventures SGPS SA, of Portugal v. Vidatel Ltd., a British Virgin Islands firm "owned by Ms. Isabel dos Santos ... daughter of a former president of Angola and ... reputed to be the richest woman in Africa", at the British Virgin Islands High Court.
November 22, 2019 - Application by Aenergy SA to take discovery from General Electric Company for use in legal proceedings in Angola, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
April 10, 2019 - Application by ALROSA, a Russian diamond-mining company, to take discovery from Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, Capital One NA, Capital One Bank (USA) NA, Citibank NA, Commerzbank NA, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, HSBC Bank USA NA, JPMorgan Chase NA, Wells Fargo NA, PNC Bank NA, Standard Chartered Bank, Barclays Bank PLC, BNP Paribas SA, and UBS AG for use in contemplated legal proceedings in Angola or the United Kingdom against former or current executives of Catoca Ltd., a diamond-mining company in Angola, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
April 08, 2018 - Public Notice by the Mauritius Financial Services Commission regarding QG African Infrastructure 1 LP.
