# Paris tribunal correctionnel convicts Teodorín and orders confiscation of seized French property Date: 2017 ## The fact On 27 October 2017 the Paris tribunal correctionnel convicted Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue in absentia of laundering the proceeds of misuse of corporate assets, public-fund diversion, breach of trust and corruption. It imposed three years’ imprisonment suspended and ordered confiscation of seized French property. ## Context Obiang is president. Teodorín was the defendant. The tribunal sat. Sharing a household is not a reason to write that Obiang was convicted in Paris. 2014 DOJ; 27 October 2017 TGI; 10 February 2020 appeal. Keep dates. Keep Paris tribunal correctionnel convicts Teodorín and orders confiscation of seized French property on 2017-10-27 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 (chronology of the French court file) carries the official instrument or communique. Mediapart records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [institutional corruption](/drivers/institutional-corruption): a completed French first-instance conviction and confiscation order against the vice-president son. ## What is established and what is not Established: The Paris TGI convicted Teodorín on 27 October 2017 and ordered confiscation of seized French property. 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 was the defendant. The tribunal judged. Sharing a household is not a reason to drop the judgment 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 tribunal correctionnel convicts Teodorín and orders confiscation of seized French property, not a later speech about Paris tribunal correctionnel convicts Teodorín and orders confiscation of seized French property. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Paris tribunal correctionnel convicts Teodorín and orders confiscation of seized French property on 2017-10-27 is not a licence to treat every later Sherpa (chronology of the French court file) 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 tribunal correctionnel convicts Teodorín and orders confiscation of seized French property into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He is president. Teodorín was the defendant. The tribunal judged. Sharing a household is not a reason to drop the judgment 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.mediapart.fr/journal/france/271017/biens-mal-acquis-le-jugement-obiang-met-fin-l-impunite - https://www.asso-sherpa.org/procedures-dates-cles-bma-guinee-equatoriale ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/gq-paris-teodorin-2017