The foundation of NJ involved the Espírito Santo group, through ESCOM, and some of the main figures of the JOSÉ EDUARDO dos SANTOS regime: Gen. LEOPOLDINO DO NACIMENTO (“Dino”), Gen. HÉLDER VIEIRA DIAS “KOPELIPA” and CARLOS FEIJÓ.
In 2010, a company presented as Media Investments, allegedly linked to “Kopelipa”, bought, in full, the Angolense weekly and A Capital and took a minority stake in the capital of NJ, in this case by the transfer of part of the stake of ESCOM. All three publications were experiencing difficulties. Overall, the acquisitions reached the value of c. USD 15 million. READ MORE