UK sanctions Angola’s Isabel dos Santos in corruption crackdown

Britain has imposed sanctions on Angola’s Isabel dos Santos, a billionaire businesswoman and daughter of a former president, as part of a crackdown on money laundering promised by the new Labour government.

The measures also impact an exiled Ukrainian oligarch, Dmytro Firtash, and Aivars Lembergs, one of Latvia’s richest men.

Describing the three tycoons as “notorious kleptocrats”, it has frozen their UK assets and implemented a…