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French court rejects final appeal by E Guinea VP over illegal assets July 28 2021 11:24 PM RELATED STORIES
File photo of Teodorin Obiang, the son of Equatorial Guineaقs president and vice-president in charge of security and defence.
Text Size: AFP/Paris 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.
French court to rule on illegal assets of E. Guinea president son
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28/07/2021 - 04:54 Teodorin Obiang tried to pass off his Avenue Foch building as a diplomatic mission ERIC FEFERBERG AFP 3 min
Paris (AFP)
France s top appeals court on Wednesday rules on the conviction handed to the powerful son of the president of Equatorial Guinea for building up luxury assets in the country with illegally obtained funds.
If the Court of Cassation throws out the appeal by Teodorin Obiang, who is vice president of the poverty-stricken central African country, his assets could be redistributed to the country s people under a new French law passed this month.
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