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Notorious fraudster Baltasar Ebang Engonga has been handed an eight-year prison term after a high-profile trial.
Equatorial Guinea’s judicial system convicted the ex-government heavyweight for siphoning state finances in a landmark ruling.
The disgraced official gained viral infamy when intimate recordings featuring him with multiple women were exposed on digital platforms.
Supreme Court spokesperson Hilario Mitogo confirmed Engonga’s conviction by the Bioko provincial court for misusing taxpayer money earmarked for official travel.
In addition to incarceration, authorities imposed a hefty penalty of $220,000 on the convicted official.
As former chief of the financial oversight bureau, Engonga faced justice alongside five colleagues, all implicated in defrauding public coffers of substantial sums.
This sentence follows his dramatic arrest last November when scandalous footage surfaced online, featuring compromising encounters with women including fellow officials’ wives, during the corruption probe.
