An Equatorial Guinea court has sentenced the infamous Baltasar Ebang Engonga, a former senior government official, to eight years in prison for embezzlement.
Engonga went viral last year after sex tapes involving him and several women leaked online.
The press director of the Supreme Court, the Bioko provincial tribunal Hilario Mitogo found Engonga guilty of diverting funds meant for professional travel expenses to personal use.
Engonga, a former head of the national financial investigation agency, was tried alongside five other senior officials.
They were accused of misappropriating hundreds of thousands of dollars in public funds.
The case follows his detention in November, when videos of him with women, including the spouses of other officials, surfaced on social media while investigations into the embezzlement charges were ongoing.
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