Contrary to what has been reported by various media outlets in recent days, that Ângela Leão, wife of Gregório Leão has been on probation since the 19th of May, together with Cipriano Mutota and Fabião Mabunda, as part of hidden debts, the fact is that according to sources close to the family and the process, she still remains in prison, despite the opinion of the Supreme Court (TS).

Ângela Leão was sentenced to 11 years in prison as part of the trial of the hidden debts case, but the Supreme Court ordered that she be released on conditional release in response to the lawyers' appeal and the TS judges agreed that the 2014 Penal Code, which determines conditional release after serving half of the prison sentence, should be applied to the hidden debts case.

In the TS ruling dated April 15, the advisory judges state that "if the new law worsens the requirements for the benefit of parole, with an extension of the period of serving the prison sentence, the previous law, in force at the time of the commission of the crime and the initiation of criminal proceedings, will apply. It is not reasonable, as it violates the principle of legality, combined with the principles of legal certainty and the protection of trust, for the defendant to be surprised by the worsening of incriminating norms and the execution of criminal sanctions, at a stage in which he has already been accused, pronounced, tried and convicted, with the application of previous criminal legislation.”

“Under these terms and, in view of the foregoing, granting the appeal, they revoke the appealed order and determine that the appealed Court should acknowledge the request for conditional release, made by the appellant Ângela Dinis Buque Leão.”

However, with the opinion of the TS, Fabião Mabunda and Cipriano Mutota, they used the arguments, and the Court agreed and informed the management of the Língamo Prison and they were granted conditional release. Strangely, after receiving the TS ruling, the TSR Judge remained silent and did not contact the civil prison management in time, having started the process days ago, thus expecting that at any moment Ângela Leão and other defendants of the mediatized process are released based on the same assumptions.