Angola’s Tax Authority Hires Money-Laundering Suspect to Investigate Tax Crime

Angola’s Tax Authority (AGT) has awarded Portuguese academic Carla Trindade two consultancy contracts worth a combined 551 million kwanzas to help investigate tax offences. Yet documents reviewed by Maka Angola point to irregularities in dealings between her husband’s company and the same authority. She and her husband are also named in a criminal complaint formally lodged with prosecutors alleging money laundering, tax evasion and other offences.

Trindade teaches tax law, tax litigation and…