By RFIPosted on 16-12-2019Changed on 16-12-2019 at 20:35

This December 16, for the resumption of the trial of Teodorin Obiang in the so-called "ill-gotten gains" case, the prosecution requested a firm prison against the Vice-President of Equatorial Guinea, prosecuted for laundering the abuse of corporate property , breach of trust, embezzlement of public funds and corruption.

This December 16, in Paris, the public prosecutor demanded four years in prison, a fine of 30 million euros and the confiscation of the seized goods, accompanied by an arrest warrant, against Teodorin Obiang. These requisitions are much heavier than the first instance judgment which saw the Vice-President of Equatorial Guinea sentenced to three years suspended prison sentence, 30 million euros suspended fine and the confiscation of seized property.

At the time, the court described its decision as a " warning penalty ," said the attorney general. " However, this notion of warning is unsuitable for Mr. Obiang's actions ," he argued. And the representative of the prosecution to insist on the gravity of the facts, whether it is the extent of the monopolized funds or the systematism of their laundering, which is more by a high-representative of the State supposed to defend the general interest.

File as "caricatural as emblematic"

" I do not speak only for Transparency International but for millions of African citizens who are victims of these practices ", had also emphasized a little earlier Master William Bourdon, asking the court to take a verdict, " an essential act in a file as caricatural as it is emblematic ”.

The lawyer had not gone back in detail on " the slew, the anthology, the fantasia of dependent elements " but rather on the cynicism of the defense which had stopped at nothing to torpedo the procedure. And Master Bourdon to challenge the court. " Give a luminous epilogue to this judicial saga, even if it is only a provisional epilogue, so much Teodorin Obiang will use all the recourse of a State of law which he despises, until the judicial nausea ", a- he concluded.

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