Baltasar Ebang Engonga – nephew of Equatorial Guinea’s president and once at the centre of a sex tape scandal – has been jailed for 8 years for embezzlement.
Nicknamed “Bello” for his looks, the former financial agency chief diverted public funds for personal use, a court ruled.
He gained notoriety in 2024 when leaked sex videos surfaced, showing him with multiple women – including wives and relatives of powerful figures – while he was already under investigation for stashing money in Cayman Islands accounts.
A court in Equatorial Guinea Wednesday handed an eight-year jail term for embezzlement to a senior official, Baltasar Ebang Engonga who separately won notoriety for appearing in a series of sex tapes with other officials’ wives.
The Bioko provincial tribunal convicted Baltasar Ebang Engonga of diverting money claimed as professional travel expenses for personal use, the supreme court press director Hilario Mitogo told reporters in a WhatsApp message.
Engonga, the married former head of the national financial investigation agency, and five other senior officials were accused of embezzling expenses worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in the oil-rich central African state.
Mitogo said the provincial court handed Engonga an eight-year sentence and a fine worth $220,000.