Seizure / forfeiture

Teodorin Obiang: $165M moved in 2021

French courts confirmed the confiscation of his Paris mansion, cars and other assets after an ill-gotten gains trial.

The figure

  • Amount165,000,000 US dollars
  • CategorySeizure / forfeiture
  • CorridorParis, France → Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
  • Distance5.1K km apart
  • Year reported2021
  • Documentation confidence82/100

What that amount buys

$165M is roughly 2 long-range private jets, 393 median-priced US homes, or 2.0K years of median US household income.

Teodorin Obiang is publicly known as vice-president of equatorial guinea. The arc drawn for this entry joins Paris and Malabo because those are the places the two sides of the deal are based — it is not the route a wire took through the banking system.

Source

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