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A court in Equatorial Guinea has sentenced Baltasar Ebang Engonga, a former senior government official, to eight years in prison for embezzlement.
He was also fined $220,000.
Engonga became famous after sextapes involving him and several women leaked online.
According to Hilario Mitogo, press director of the Supreme Court, the Bioko provincial tribunal found Engonga guilty of diverting funds meant for professional travel expenses for personal use.
Engonga, a former head of the national financial investigation agency, was arrested and tried alongside five other senior officials accused of misappropriating hundreds of thousands of dollars in public funds.
The case against Baltasar Engonga follows his detention in November, when videos of him with women, including the spouses of other officials, surfaced on social media while investigations into the embezzlement charges were ongoing.
The scandal against the 54-year-old Economist resulted in the search of his house and office on impromptu notice by ANIF officials who came across several CDs that later revealed his sexcapades with different married women.
The videos reportedly included encounters with high-profile individuals, such as his brother’s wife, his cousin, the sister of the President of Equatorial Guinea, the Director General of Police’s wife, and about 20 of the country’s ministers’ wives, among others.
In a report by a local media platform, Ahora EG, Engonga had been involved in a sexual scandal unprecedented in the history of Equatorial Guinea.
The former ANIF DG better known as “Bello” allegedly had sexual relations with several women, some of them married, and filmed these intimate encounters.
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