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French Cour de cassation rejects Teodorín’s pourvoi; biens-mal-acquis file becomes definitive

On 28 July 2021 the French Cour de cassation rejected Teodorín’s pourvoi, making the Paris conviction and confiscation definitive. In the causal graph this event strengthens Obiang resource kleptocracy, a driver that weakens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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On 28 July 2021 the French Cour de cassation rejected Teodorín’s pourvoi, making the Paris conviction and confiscation definitive.

Context

Obiang is president. Teodorín was the applicant. The Court sat. Sharing a household is not a reason to write that Obiang lost in cassation as defendant.

10 February 2020 appeal; 28 July 2021 cassation. Keep dates. Keep French Cour de cassation rejects Teodorín’s pourvoi; biens-mal-acquis file becomes definitive on 2021-07-28 separate from neighbouring Obiang instruments.

The president of Equatorial Guinea is head of state and commander-in-chief. He does not sit as a Paris correctional judge, a US district-court clerk, or a Cour de cassation panel. He was not the named defendant in the US settlement or the French biens-mal-acquis judgments; his son was.

Why it matters

The path is institutional corruption: a completed cassation that closed the French file.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    verified

    He is president. Teodorín applied. The Court judged. Sharing a household is not a reason to drop the cassation from this presidency’s file.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactFrench Cour de cassation rejects Teodorín’s pourvoi; biens-mal-acquis file becomes definitive
    2. strengthensDriverObiang resource kleptocracy
    3. weakensIndicatorHaving a say in government
    Worsening path

    impact weight 1 · Effect from 28 July 2021 · verified

    A completed 2021 cassation against the vice-president son is a dated strengthening of the resource-kleptocracy driver.

    • Having a say in government

      via Obiang resource kleptocracy

      Worse

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.85 (weight 1 × strength 0.85)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    1. FactFrench Cour de cassation rejects Teodorín’s pourvoi; biens-mal-acquis file becomes definitive
    2. strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
    3. strengthensIndicators (3)Political corruption index
    Worsening path

    impact weight 1 · Effect from 28 July 2021 · verified

    A completed definitive French confiscation file is a dated strengthening of institutional corruption.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Sherpa — 28 July 2021 Cour de cassation rejects Teodorín’s pourvoiSherpa · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.World Bank StAR — Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue asset-recovery watch (US and France chapters)World Bank Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Sherpa recorded the date.

Sherpa carries the official instrument or communique. World Bank Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative records the same dated act independently.

Established: The Cour de cassation rejected the pourvoi on 28 July 2021.

Teodorín applied. The Court judged. Sharing a household is not a reason to drop the cassation from this presidency’s file.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies French Cour de cassation rejects Teodorín’s pourvoi; biens-mal-acquis file becomes definitive, not a later speech about French Cour de cassation rejects Teodorín’s pourvoi; biens-mal-acquis file becomes definitive.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He is president. Teodorín applied. The Court judged. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorTeodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
  2. contributed toFactFrench Cour de cassation rejects Teodorín’s pourvoi; biens-mal-acquis file becomes definitive
  3. strengthensDrivers (2)Obiang resource kleptocracy
  4. weakensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). French Cour de cassation rejects Teodorín’s pourvoi; biens-mal-acquis file becomes definitive. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/gq-cassation-2021

https://factrail.ai/facts/gq-cassation-2021

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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