# French Cour de cassation rejects Teodorín’s pourvoi; biens-mal-acquis file becomes definitive Date: 2021 ## The fact On 28 July 2021 the French Cour de cassation rejected Teodorín’s pourvoi, making the Paris conviction and confiscation definitive. Sherpa recorded the date. ## 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. ## Evidence and sources Sherpa carries the official instrument or communique. World Bank Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [institutional corruption](/drivers/institutional-corruption): a completed cassation that closed the French file. ## What is established and what is not Established: The Cour de cassation rejected the pourvoi on 28 July 2021. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. 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. French Cour de cassation rejects Teodorín’s pourvoi; biens-mal-acquis file becomes definitive on 2021-07-28 is not a licence to treat every later Sherpa communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average French Cour de cassation rejects Teodorín’s pourvoi; biens-mal-acquis file becomes definitive into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He is president. Teodorín applied. The Court judged. Sharing a household is not a reason to drop the cassation from this presidency’s file. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo: https://factrail.ai/people/teodoro-obiang-nguema ## Drivers - Obiang resource kleptocracy: https://factrail.ai/drivers/obiang-resource-kleptocracy - Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption ## Sources - https://www.asso-sherpa.org/affaire-bma-guinee-equatoriale-famille-obiang - https://star.worldbank.org/asset-recovery-watch-database/teodoro-nguema-obiang-mbasogo-teodoro-nguema-obiang-mangue-france ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/gq-cassation-2021