 The Vice President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoring Obiang, has been found guilty of fraudulently constituting a luxurious patrimony. After the rejection of his appeal by the Court of Suscession, Obiang had been sentenced by the Paris Court of Appeal in February 2020 to three years in prison with a suspended sentence, 30 million euros in fines and the confiscation of all his assets. He was charged with embezzlement of public funds and bridge of trust between 1997 and 2011. The United Kingdom has also imposed sanctions against Obiang for allegedly siphoning state assets into his own bank account.