Equatorial Guinea’s Spendthrift VP Faces Corruption Trial in Paris

Teodorin Obiang Nguema has luxuriated in spectacular mansions in Malibu and Paris, traveled in expensive sports cars, yachts and a private jet, amassed a multi-million-dollar art collection and once went on a reported $80,000 shopping spree at Gucci. But increasingly, the long arm of justice seems to be catching up to the jet-setting, 47-year-old son of Teodoro Obiang, Equatorial Guinea’s veteran hardline leader — not in his impoverished homeland, but in the western nations where he...

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