A COURT in Equatorial Guinea has convicted a son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo for illegally selling off a plane belonging to the national airline.
According to AFP, a court official said the Judge ruled on Tuesday, August 26, that Ruslan Obiang Nsue, must serve six years in jail unless he compensates the state for the missing aircraft.
Supreme Court Press Director, Hilario Mitogo, told reporters in a WhatsApp message, that the court convicted 50-year-old Nsue, a former director of the national carrier, Ceiba Intercontinental, of selling the ATR 72-500 plane to a Spanish company and pocketing the proceed.
He was placed under house arrest in 2023 on the order of his half-brother and the country’s Vice President, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, also a son of the President.
Mitogo said the court ruled that Nsue could only avoid jail if he paid around $255,000 to the airline, along with damages and a fine to the state, while acquitting him on separate charges of embezzlement and abuse of office.
Nsue has also served as secretary of state for Sports and Youth in the oil-rich central African state, ruled for the past 46 years by his 83-year-old father.
In a separate case targeting his half-brother and the country’s vice president, a French court handed Obiang Mangue a suspended jail sentence and a $35million fine in July 2021 after convicting him of embezzling public funds.
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