Tag: Placido Mico

E.Guinea leader’s son gets suspended jail term in Paris graft trial

by Juliette MONTESSE and Clare BYRNE Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – A French court handed down a three-year suspended jail term on Friday to the son of Equatorial Guinea’s leader, Teodorin Obiang, after convicting him of using public money to fund a jet-set lifestyle in Paris. The 48-year-old vice president of the small west African state, who was tried in absentia, was also given a suspended fine of 30 million euros (35 million dollars) by judges […]