No immunity on embezzlement charges for E.Guinea president's son

By AFP

Guinea

DEC 15, 2015 LISTEN

Teodorin Nguema Obiang, the son of Equatorial Guinea's president Teodoro Obiang and one of the country's vice-presidents, is accused of money laundering and misappropriating public funds. By Jerome Leroy (AFP/File)

Paris (AFP) - A French appeals court ruled Tuesday that Teodorin Obiang, son of Equatorial Guinea's long-running dictator, does not have immunity for prosecution on embezzlement charges.

Obiang, one of the country's vice-presidents, was charged by French prosecutors in March 2014 with money laundering and misappropriating millions of dollars in public funds.