May 26, 2016
French prosecutors have requested that the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president be tried for suspected money laundering, an official at the financial prosecutor’s office said on Thursday.
Teodorin Obiang, the son of President Teodoro Obiang, had appealed for charges against him to be dropped last year on grounds of diplomatic immunity, but the Cour de Cassation court at the time ruled the charges related “exclusively to his private life in France” and not to his official functions.
The prosecutors have passed on a 36-page indictment that outlines a series of charges to which the defence and civil parties can make observations before judges decide in a month whether to take the case to trial, the official told Reuters.