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| All the good life about to end in jail. |
This is fantastic news,since we can't clean up our mess in Africa ourselves,lets hope the outside world does it for us and jail all these punks!
Paris — France has charged the son of Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema with money laundering, his lawyer and a judicial official said Wednesday.
Teodorin Obiang was charged as part of a corruption probe launched in December 2010 to determine whether three long-serving African leaders used corrupt means to acquire expensive properties in France.
The investigation focused on Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso, late Gabonese
president Omar Bongo Ondimba, and the Obiang family.
Teodorin Obiang's lawyer Emmanuel Marsigny said his client was charged on Tuesday.
French magistrates had issued an an international arrest warrant for Teodorin Obiang last year after he ignored a summons.
Teodorin Obiang, who is Equatorial Guinea's vice president, claimed his position gave him immunity from being judged in a foreign country.
His lawyers said they were going to file a suit in a Paris appeals court to question the legality of the move to charge Teodorin Obiang. French authorities have already seized the Obiang family's six-storey mansion on the chic Avenue Foch in Paris as well as several luxury cars.
They also took away vanloads of possessions including paintings by famous artists, a clock worth an estimated three million euros ($4.2 million) and wines worth thousands of euros a bottle.
Nine seized cars, including a Maserati, a Ferrari and a Rolls Royce were auctioned in July last year and netted 3.21 million euros.
Oil-rich Equatorial Guinea has been ruled with an iron fist by Teodoro Obiang Nguema since 1979.