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| Teodorin Nguema Obiang Mangue denies the charges |
The son of Equatorial
Guinea’s president, who also serves as his deputy, is face trial in France on
money-laundering and corruption charges, French judges have decided.
BBC
Africa Live report continues:
Teodorin
Nguema Obiang Mangue, 47, has denied charges.
He
had argued that as a senior official he had diplomatic immunity.
His
father, 74-year-old President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, seized power from
his uncle in 1979 and was re-elected in April with 93.7% of the vote.
The
French case is part of a broader investigation into allegations that
several African leaders have bought assets in France with embezzled public
funds.
Together
they are suspected of owning 63 luxury properties in Paris and some two hundred
bank accounts.
Since the mid-1990s Equatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony, has become one of sub-Sahara's biggest oil producers but a large proportion of the population still lives in poverty.
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