OCTOBER 27 2017
French court convicted Equatorial Guinea’s vice president of corruption on Friday and ordered the confiscation of his Paris mansion and other assets worth about £100 million.
Teodorin Obiang, whose father has been president of the oil-rich west African country for 38 years, was given a three-year suspended prison sentence.
It was the first of several expected trials arising from eight years of investigations into French assets held by the ruling families of Equatorial Guinea and two other African countries, Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville.
