Brazil police seize $16m from Equatorial Guinea's VP delegation

[Mwanamwana]

Polisi nchini Brazil wamekamata fedha TZS bilioni 3 na saa za mkononi 20 zenye thamani ya TZS bilioni 34 katika mizigo ya Makamu wa Rais wa Equatorial Guinea, Teodorin Obiang ambaye pia ni mtoto wa Rais wa nchi hiyo.

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More than $16m (£12m) in cash and luxury watches were seized at an airport in Brazil in the luggage of a delegation accompanying the son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, local media has reported.

Teodorin Nguema Obiang, vice-president of Equatorial Guinea and son of its longtime president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, arrived on Friday on a private plane at Viracopos airport near São Paulo as part of an 11-person delegation.

O Estado de São Paulo reported on its website that federal police found $1.5m in cash in one bag and watches worth an estimated $15m in another.

TV network Globo said Obiang was the only member of the delegation who had diplomatic immunity as the group was not on an official mission.

The bags of other delegation members were inspected as Obiang waited outside in a car, it said.

Brazilian law prohibits people from entering the country with more than 10,000 reais (£1,800), in cash.

Brazil’s foreign ministry told AFP that it was “in permanent coordination with the federal police and the customs service over the case and to decide what measures should be taken”.

The embassy of Equatorial Guinea in Brasília did not respond to questions about the matter.

O Estado de São Paulo quoted a diplomatic source from Equatorial Guinea as saying the money was to pay for medical treatment Obiang was to undergo in São Paulo.

As for the watches, they were for the “personal use” of the president’s son, and were engraved with his initials, the report said.

Accused of using public funds to support a lavish lifestyle, Teodorin Obiang was sentenced in France to a three-year suspended sentence in October 2017 for money laundering.

He has visited Brazil several times, attending the 2015 Carnival in Rio de Janeiro when a samba school won top honours for an Equatorial Guinea-themed parade but was heavily criticised because of alleged funding for it by the Obiang regime.

His father, an autocrat with broad powers to rule by decree, has been in power for 38 years.

Source: Brazil police seize $16m from Equatorial Guinea's VP delegation

 

[mulwanaka]

Duh!!!!! ila viongozi wa Africa baba yao na mama ni moja wote wanafanana kitabia, ila tu wengi hawajanaswa wengi wana penda "lavish and luxurious style of life" sababu kuu wengi hawakutegemea kua maraisi wa nchi na pia wanatoka katika peasant and poverty stricken families....ndomaana wakija madarakani wanakua na inferior complex kwahiyo wanakompansati walivyo kosa majumbani kwao, wengine wanachukia matajiri kwasabb hawajiamini.....anyway Mungu ibariki Africa na viongozi wake.

 

[GAS STATE]

shithole countries

 

[Red Giant]

Duh!!!!! ila viongozi wa Africa baba yao na mama ni moja wote wanafanana kitabia, ila tu wengi hawajanaswa wengi wana penda "lavish and luxurious style of life" sababu kuu wengi hawakutegemea kua maraisi wa nchi na pia wanatoka katika peasant and poverty stricken families....ndomaana wakija madarakani wanakua na inferior complex kwahiyo wanakompansati walivyo kosa majumbani kwao, wengine wanachukia matajiri kwasabb hawajiamini.....anyway Mungu ibariki Africa na viongozi wake.

Lakini huyu ni mtoto wa Rais aliyeishi maisha ya kifahari toka anazaliwa, hajawahi kosa kitu huyu. Inashangaza bado ni mshamba wa mali!!. . waafrika huwa hawana aibu, huyo jamaa wanachi wake wanaishi kwa shida ila yeye anafanya anasa za kishamba.

 

[Basi Nenda]

Si wanasema mizigo ya diplomats hua haikaguliwi

 

[Somoche]

Laana ya Afrika haijaisha

 

[Masamila]

Haya sasa, ndio hao hao waliingia msituni kupigania madaraka ya nchi wakitaja kuwa wanapigania kuwepo uongozi bora. Kiongozi bora gani hata kama ni za jasho lake akawa spendthrift namna hiyo?

 

[Nalendwa]

Huyu Jamaa haki ya nani!

"While 77% of the population in his country live on less than $1.25 a day.."

Insane things Teodorin Obiang spent his money on..

1. Memorabilia from MJ’s Bad Tour, to the tune of $3.2 million.

2. This 16th century gold vermeil elephant once owned by Yves Saint Laurent, reportedly bought for $467,000

3. The $700,000 300-foot yacht he reportedly rented while dating rap star Eve

4. Two Bugatti Veyron supercars, worth $1 million each

5. A private Gulf Stream jet, which he reportedly bought for $38.5 million

6. 300 bottles of Chateau Petrus, which reportedly cost €2.1 million.

7. A $30 million mansion in Malibu, California and a 101-room Parisian mansion (valued at $100 to 150 million).

8. An art collection featuring works by Degas, Renoir, Gauguin and Matisse, estimated to be worth more than $30 million.

9. An $80,000 shopping spree at Gucci

Teodorin’s official salary is around $80,000 a year.

Son of Equatorial Guinea president has €107m mansion raided in corruption case