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EuroBic is a privately–owned lender whose largest shareholder is Dos Santos.
A senior manager at a Portuguese bank co-owned by Isabel dos Santos, the Angolan businesswoman at the centre of the
Luanda Leaks scandal, has been found dead in Lisbon.
The death of Nuno Ribeiro da Cunha, 45, was confirmed by police hours after the banker was named alongside Dos Santos and three other individuals as a suspect in a criminal investigation in Angola into alleged embezzlement at the state oil company, Sonangol.
The national director of Portugal's judicial police, Luis Neves, said preliminary reports indicated Ribeiro da Cunha's death was suicide and that nobody else was involved. He told reporters his staff were prepared to help with the Angolan corruption investigation whenever a formal request is made.
The banker held a senior role at EuroBic, a privately-owned lender whose largest shareholder is Dos Santos. He appears to have handled a number of transactions for companies controlled by Dos Santos, according to leaked files.
Dos Santos, the daughter of Angola's former president, José Eduardo dos Santos, has faced intense pressure this week after the
Guardian and other media published stories based on the Luanda Leaks, a cache of 715,000 papers from the heart of her business empire.
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