The president of the Supreme Court of Equatorial Guinea resigns for alleged bribes

July 10 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The president of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, announced this Saturday that he has accepted the resignation of the president of the country’s Supreme Court, David Nguema Obiang Eyang.

David Nguema, appointed in 2018, would have admitted having received 100 million CFA francs (153,000 euros) in bribes from the Comercial Santy company, according to the Vice President, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, son of the current head of state, published on Twitter.

The decree where the dismissal of the now former president of the Court has been arranged –decree 65/2022 of July 8– includes the acceptance by the president of the resignation of the magistrate, the media outlet ‘Real Equatorial Guinea’ has reported.

Likewise, the text indicates the assumption of responsibilities of the lawyer for the illegal collection to intervene in the trial against the aforementioned firm to avoid the closure of its establishments for the manipulation of expiration dates of consumer products.

Equatorial Guinean society hopes that this case will demonstrate the effectiveness and legality of the country’s justice, says the newspaper ‘Now EG’, while pointing out that the magistrate has just “swallowed his own words” because two months ago he declared that “From now on, any judge who incurs in this type of illegality will be required to take criminal action.”