Vice-President Teodoro “Theodorin” Nguema Obiang is known for his lavish lifestyle
South African officials have seized a superyacht and two palatial homes owned by Equatorial’s Guinea’s Vice-President Teodoro Nguema Obiang.
A court ordered the seizures after local businessman Daniel Janse van Rensburg won a law suit against Obiang for unlawful arrest and torture.
He has demanded compensation of about $2.2m (£1.8m).
He says he was unlawfully detained in Equatorial Guinea for about 500 days after a business deal went wrong.
The vice-president, the son of the world’s longest-serving ruler, has not yet commented on the case.
He and President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo have long been accused of seeing oil-rich Equatorial Guinea as their personal fiefdom, and of abusing its wealth and resources.
This is the latest in a string of rulings issued against him by courts around the world.
“We attached two houses… in Cape Town in a formal application two weeks ago and the superyacht last Tuesday,” lawyer Errol Eldson, who is representing the businessman, told AFP news agency.
Source: bbc.com
