Sonangol creates company to exclusively manage presidential plane that cost the State USD 300 million.

This is the offshore company Sonair Ltd created by the Angolan public company in February of the same year with the corporate purpose of holding and managing aviation assets.

An aviation company was continued by the National Fuel Society - Sonangol - to, among others, exclusively take care of the operations of the Presidential Plane, a Boeing 787-8 BBJ Dreamliner that sucked from the public coffers an amount of no less than 300 million dollars, of According to a complaint by economics professor and journalist Carlos Rosado de Carvalho, based on a survey of companies that operate in tax havens.

This is the offshore company Sonair Ltd created by the Angolan public company in February of the same year with the corporate purpose of holding and managing aviation assets.

In other words, as the company was only created in the same year that the oil company acquired the aviation equipment, it is clear, for now, that the firm's sole objective is to control freight to the Presidential Palace.

If there were still doubts about the cost and ownership of that plane, the research shows that the luxury Boeing that the President of the Republic of Angola João Lourenço has used on long-distance trips since his inauguration is owned by Sonangol, EP.

" Valued at around 300 million USD, the 'flying palace' was purchased in November 2022 through offshore Sonair Ltd created by the Angolan public company in February of the same year with the corporate purpose of owning and managing aviation assets. Boeing 787-8 BBJ Dreamliner with license plate 2-DEER registered in the tax haven of Guernsey is the only asset of Sonair Ltd suggesting that the firm was formed with the specific objective of owning and managing the 'presidential plane'", says the journalist's complaint investigative Carlos Rosado de Carvalho.

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