French court rejects final appeal by E Guinea VP over illegal assets
July 28 2021 11:24 PM
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File photo of Teodorin Obiang, the son of Equatorial Guineaقs president and vice-president in charge of security and defence.
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France’s highest appeals court yesterday upheld the conviction of Equatorial Guinea’s Vice President Teodorin Obiang for accumulating luxury properties with illegally obtained funds, in a growing French push against assets amassed by corrupt elites.
The rejection by the Court of Cassation of the ultimate appeal by Teodorin Obiang, the son of Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang, marks the first final conviction in France of a leading figure in a string of such investigations in progress for over a decade.