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Swiss authorities seize 11 luxury cars of Equatorial Guinea leader's son
03 Nov 2016 at 13:08hrs | Views
Swiss authorities have confiscated 11 luxury vehicles and sports cars belonging to the son of Equatorial Guinea's president as part of a preliminary investigation into alleged corruption, AP news agency reports.
Spokesman Henri Della Casa of the Geneva prosecutor's office said that the cars belonging to Teodorin Obiang Nguema, who serves as vice-president in the oil-rich West African state, were confiscated on Monday in the freight zone at Geneva's airport, the agebcy reports.
Swiss magazine L'Hebdo says it has obtained photos of the impounded fleet of supercars (see tweet below), which include a Bugatti Veyron, a Porsche 918 Spyder and several models of the Ferrari F12.
In 2012, France issued an arrest warrant for him and seized his Paris mansion and several of his luxury cars.
Equatorial Guinea is one of Africa's largest oil exporters, but most of its 740,000 inhabitants live in poverty.
Bad day for a dictator: Teodorin Obiang just lost his 11 supercars hidden at Geneva airport https://t.co/8sPbOtg926 pic.twitter.com/GZ1LcQEoA9
— François Pilet (@FrancoisPilet) November 3, 2016
Source - BBC
