Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue (Teodorín)

Chinese companies also have a substantial foothold in the timber sector controlled by another presidential son and putative successor Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue who was Agriculture Minister until last year...

Indeed his own son Teodorín Nguema faces trial albeit in absentia under France’s laws which prohibit the purchase of assets with stolen money...

Prosecutors say Teodorín’s purchase of a mansion in Paris’s 16th arrondissement clearly violates the law; they issued a warrant for his arrest in July...

Teodorín’s lawyers claim he has legal immunity since his appointment in May as Second Vice-President and are contesting the seizure of his building worth about150 million euros (US$194 mn...

On 19 October President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo nominated his son Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue (‘Teodorín’) as his new deputy envoy to the Paris-based United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation...

That day the United States filed notice of a claim against Teodorín for over $70 mn...

One of the report’s four case studies shows how Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue (Teodorín) the free-spending son of President Obiang Nguema bought a $23 million mansion in Malibu without sanction and was identified when Global Witness a British campaign group raised the issue with the Miami authorities...

At a hearing on 4 February two lawyers for Teodorín and the registered agent for his father took the celebrated Fifth Amendment to the US constitution and refused to answer the Subcommittee’s questions...

Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue (‘Teodorín’): From 2004 to 2008 Equatorial Guinea’s Forestry Minister and presidential son used the services of US attorneys real estate and escrow agents and insurance brokers to transfer more than $100 mn...

The escrow company First American Trust helped Teodorín Obiang to purchase a Malibu property without using a mortgage accepting $30 mn...

Rimbunan Hijau managers have developed a cosy relationship with the leadership in Malabo especially with presidential son and Forestry Minister Teodorín Nguema Obiang Mangue who has a reputation for splashing the cash on fast women and fast cars wherever he goes be it South Africa France or the United States...

Rimbunan Hijau managers have developed a cosy relationship with the leadership in Malabo especially with presidential son and Forestry Minister Teodorín Nguema Obiang Mangue who has a reputation for splashing the cash on fast women and fast cars wherever he goes be it South Africa France or the United States...

Disclosures about the business affairs of Teodorin Nguema Obiang eldest son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo have boosted Malabo oppositionists and embarrassed big oil companies...

Disclosures about the business affairs of Teodorin Nguema Obiang eldest son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo have boosted Malabo oppositionists and embarrassed big oil companies...

' In court papers in South Africa last month Teodorin Forestry Minister explained the source of a personal fortune that enabled him to buy two mansions in Cape Town a clutch of luxury cars and a $30 million California estate with four-hole golf course...

Oil majors such as ExxonMobil Marathon and Devon Energy may be wondering what Teodorin's admission will cost...

Armengol's main target appears to be the President's wayward son Teodoro Nguema Obiang known as Teodorin...

With his own radio station and his populist attacks on corruption and foreign interference Teodorin regards himself as natural heir to the Presidency...

The crisis shows the failure of Obiang's system of personal rule Although Obiang may privately concede Teodorin's limitations those who believed the President would reshuffle Teodorin out of government this year were disappointed...

Obiang's compromise was to take the wide-ranging and highly lucrative infrastructure portfolio away from Teodorin's ministerial duties but leave him with responsibility for Agriculture and Forestry...

This is more interesting than it looks as it enables Teodorin to get involved with land allocation and some of the expensive if fruitless efforts to regenerate the ailing food and commodity production schemes...

But to Armengol and his allies Gabriel is as unacceptable a successor as Teodorin: they object to Teodorin because of the damage he could do to their own commercial interests and political plans and to Gabriel because he isn't a 'real' Equato-Guinean...

Gabriel US-trained is somewhat better regarded than his erratic senior half-brother Teodoro Nguema Obiang known as 'Teodorín'...

Five more accounts and three CDs were held in the name of Constancia Mangue Nsue Okomo Obiang's senior wife and Teodorín's (not Gabriel's) mother...

Neither Obiang nor Teodorín had personal accounts at Riggs...

Two of Teodorín's accounts were in the name of his California-registered TNO Entertainment ostensibly a vehicle for promoting rap artists and an account called Awake Ltd...

Riggs's records include several companies owned by Obiang and his close associates; they include Abayak (building and property) controlled by Obiang and Constancia; Sofana and Somagui (timber) owned by Teodorín; the private security company Sonavi (Sociedad Nacional de Vigilancia) owned by Armengol; Nusiteles a telecommunications firm part-owned by Abayak with several ministers and Obiang's long-standing US lobbyist R...

At the centre of the crisis is Teodoro Nguema Obiang known as Teodorín Obiang's favourite son...

Teodorín is a dangerous irrational wealthy playboy who is feared and reviled...

His mother is Obiang's first wife Constancia Mangue Nsue Okomo and she (along with her own influential mother Okomo) are determined that Teodorín will win the power struggle...

Obiang himself backs Teodorín for cultural and family reasons...

Teodorín and the Okomo side are from the Obuk sub-clan from Mongomo while Obiang and many of his relations in this matrilineal society call themselves Esanguis...

Teodorín's and his mother's dependence on Obiang for political power is dangerous for Obiang himself...

Contenders for power from Mongomo and elsewhere know that with Obiang's exit and Teodorín's coming to power they would lose everything if not their lives...

This makes Obiang Teodorín's guarantor and an obstacle to the financial and political ambitions of many...

Teodorín has some popular support because of his regular but staggeringly hypocritical pronouncements on corruption broadcast on his popular news and music station Radio Asonga...

She is known as a São Tomense because her family line traces back to neighbouring São Tomé e Príncipe; as such Gabriel is an outsider and he is very different from Teodorín...

Gabriel is younger wears a baseball cap and was educated in America; he is also seen as much more politically capable than Teodorín...

The most important three (beyond Teodorín and Gabriel) are Obiang's brothers and half-brothers (and Teodorín's paternal uncles) General Armengol Ondo Nguema Gen...

These three are the pillars of the regime and Teodorín's most dangerous enemies; and now there are growing questions about their loyalty...

This prompted a heavy rebuke from him a big row with Teodorín and then a reported suicide attempt by Ndong Ona in mid-December...

Favourite son Many of Obiang's current problems date back to the appointment in February 2003 of Teodorín as Minister of Infrastructure and Forests...

Teodorín controls much of the infrastructure portfolio...

then had to secure approval from Teodorín's Ministry...

Compared by some to Iraq's late Uday Hussein Teodorín expanded his empire rapidly and started pressurising French Spanish and other foreign companies...