Angolan National Bank

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Angolan National Bank
Banco Nacional de Angola
National Bank of Angolan logo
National Bank of Angolan logo
Headquarters Luanda , AngolaAngolaAngola 
founding November 10, 1976
president Valter Filipe
country Angola
currency

Kwanza

ISO 4217 AOA
Currency reserves US $ 20.32 billion (2016)
Mint (s)
Website

www.bna.ao/

predecessor

Banco de Angola

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The Angolan National Bank , ( Portuguese : Banco Nacional de Angola ) is the central bank of Angola . The Kwanza is the currency of Angola and is issued by the Angolan National Bank. The annual inflation rate is currently 11.38% (end of 2011).

The head office is on Avenida 4 de Fevereiro , in the immediate vicinity of the German embassy in Luanda .

The governor is José Pedro de Morais Júnior . He was appointed by President José Eduardo dos Santos in January 2015 .

Money laundering scandal

Building of the Angolan National Bank

The state bank was the victim of a corruption or money laundering case from 2009 , when up to 160 million US dollars were successively transferred from the BNA state account at Banco Espírito Santo in London to various accounts abroad. That went well until the minimum balance of the state account was to be tapped, after which the bank informed the Angolan authorities. Fictitious invoices to the BNA were supposed to be used to make payments for imported products that were never delivered to Angola, or for other completely fictitious products such as snow plows . Part of the money has already been secured again. In this context, among other things, luxury limousines and expensive luxury apartments in Portugal were seized. Portuguese and Spanish business people, as well as various employees of the Angolan Ministry of Finance and the headquarters of the BNA in Luanda, who have already been convicted in Angola, were involved. In Portugal, one more case is pending before the judiciary, that of the President of Banco Espirito Santo Angola (BESA), Álvaro Sobrinho . The Portuguese and Angolan authorities accuse him of money laundering and fraud. The Portuguese Departamento Central de Investigação e Ação Penal (Central Investigation and Prosecution Department ) accused Sobrinho of money laundering of 80 million euros. In this context, luxury properties in Sobrinhos were confiscated by the public prosecutor in the summer of 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Angola Foreign Exchange Reserves . tradingeconomics.com. Accessed on January 29, 2017, accessed February 5, 2012
  2. ↑ Notes and coins accessed February 5, 2012 (pt)
  3. ↑ Angola - Índice de preços ao consumidor
  4. ↑ Portrait on BNA website (pt)
  5. ↑ Angolan Reserve Bank with new governor Angop, January 15, 2015 (en)
  6. ↑ MP já realizou buscas no caso de fraude com limpa-neves ( Memento from 20110603160730) Diario de Noticias Online, accessed June 2, 2011 (pt)
  7. ↑ Álvaro Sobrinho: MP investiga transferência bancária suspeita de 3,3 milhões de euros Expresso Online, accessed November 16, 2011 (pt)
  8. ↑ Líder do BES / Angola suspeito de lavagem de dinheiro ( Memento from June 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Diário de Noticias, accessed November 16, 2011 (pt)
  9. ↑ Milhões do Banco de Angola deram a volta ao mundo ("Millions of the Angolan National Bank on their way around the world") Diário de Notícias, February 3, 2012, page 19 (Portuguese)
  10. ↑ Casas de luxo de Álvaro Sobrinho arrestadas pela justiça . In: Observador of August 10, 2015 (Portuguese)

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