A court in Equatorial Guinea has sentenced Baltasar Ebang Engonga, a former senior government official, to eight years in prison for embezzlement.
Engonga attained fame status after sextapes involving him and several women surfaced online.
According to Hilario Mitogo, press director of the Supreme Court, the Bioko provincial tribunal found Engonga guilty of diverting money meant for professional travel expenses for personal use.
He also got fined $220,000.
A former head of the national financial investigation agency, Engonga, went on trial alongside five other senior officials accused of misappropriating hundreds of thousands of dollars in public funds.
The case is following his detention in November, when videos of him with women, comprising the wives of other officials, came up on social media while interrogations into the embezzlement charges were still going on.
