A court in Equatorial Guinea has sentenced former senior government official, Baltasar Ebang Engonga, to eight years imprisonment after finding him guilty of diverting public funds for personal use.
The Bioko Provincial Tribunal ruled on Tuesday that Engonga, once head of the country’s national financial investigation agency, embezzled funds earmarked for official travel. In addition to the jail term, the disgraced official was ordered to pay a fine of $220,000.