Teodorin threatens Paris over sale of confiscated building
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Radiomacuto
Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, known as Teodorin, is threatening diplomatic reprisals after a Paris building definitively confiscated in the ill-gotten assets case was put up for sale. The Equatorial Guinean president’s son calls the sale illegal and hostile, while the Malabo authorities could use the Tica naval school as leverage against France, according to AFP.
Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, vice-president of Equatorial Guinea, is threatening Paris with diplomatic reprisals after a building at 40-42 avenue Foch was put up for sale, having been definitively confiscated by the French courts in the ill-gotten assets case. He considers the sale illegal, reports Radiomacuto.
The case pits the two countries against each other over property linked to Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue’s conviction for misappropriating public funds. In Malabo, the Tica naval school could be used as leverage against France, according to Radiomacuto. Equatorial Guinean diplomats occupied a confiscated building in Paris.
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