# Paris Court of Appeal confirms Teodorín conviction and makes €30 million fine payable

Date: 2020

## The fact

On 10 February 2020 the Paris Court of Appeal confirmed Teodorín’s conviction and the confiscation of his seized French property and converted the first-instance suspended €30 million fine into a payable fine.

## Context

Obiang is president. Teodorín was the appellant. The court sat. A later cassation on 28 July 2021 is a neighbouring instrument.

27 October 2017 TGI; 10 February 2020 appeal; 28 July 2021 cassation. Keep dates. Keep Paris Court of Appeal confirms Teodorín conviction and makes €30 million fine payable on 2020-02-10 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. OCCRP records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [institutional corruption](/drivers/institutional-corruption): a completed appeal that made the €30 million fine payable.

## What is established and what is not

Established: The Paris Court of Appeal confirmed conviction and confiscation on 10 February 2020 and made a €30 million fine payable.

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 appealed. The court judged. Sharing a household is not a reason to drop the appeal 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 Paris Court of Appeal confirms Teodorín conviction and makes €30 million fine payable, not a later speech about Paris Court of Appeal confirms Teodorín conviction and makes €30 million fine payable.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Paris Court of Appeal confirms Teodorín conviction and makes €30 million fine payable on 2020-02-10 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 Paris Court of Appeal confirms Teodorín conviction and makes €30 million fine payable into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He is president. Teodorín appealed. The court judged. Sharing a household is not a reason to drop the appeal 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.occrp.org/en/news/france-what-to-do-with-funds-seized-from-corrupt-foreigners
- https://www.asso-sherpa.org/procedures-dates-cles-bma-guinee-equatoriale

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/gq-paris-appeal-2020