Equatorial Guinea Jails Baltasar Engonga Over Corruption Charges
Equatorial Guinea’s Baltasar Ebang Engonga has been sentenced to eight years in prison for embezzling funds.
The ex-financial investigations chief was also fined $220,000 in a high-profile corruption case.
A senior government figure in Equatorial Guinea, Baltasar Ebang Engonga, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for embezzling public funds.

Engonga, who previously served as head of the country’s national financial investigation agency, was accused of diverting large sums of money meant for travel expenses into his personal accounts. According to reports, five other high-ranking officials were also implicated in the corruption scandal.
His case first gained public attention last year when several explicit videos featuring him with the wives of other officials surfaced online. Some of the clips, reportedly filmed inside his finance ministry office, spread rapidly on social media, generating memes, parody songs, and even a mock product dubbed “Balthazariem,” a spoof virility drug named after him.
The Bioko provincial tribunal has now found him guilty, handing down an eight-year jail term alongside a fine of $220,000. The sentence marks one of the most high-profile convictions in the country’s ongoing efforts to clamp down on corruption within government ranks.