A court of Marbella investigates the son of Obiang accused of kidnapping | Spain

New judicial front in Spain against the regime of Teodoro Obiang Nguema, President of Equatorial Guinea. A Court of Marbella has opened previous proceedings for the crimes of international corruption and money laundering against Carmelo Ovono Obiang, Secretary of State and Vice Minister of Foreign Security, according to El País sources of the investigation. The Guinean high position has been investigated for four years by the National Court for the kidnapping and torture of four Ecuatoguineanos resident in Madrid. One of them deceased in non -clarified circumstances.

The new proceedings have been opened in Marbella after the Criminal Chamber of the National Court ordered Judge Santiago Pedraz to send to the Dean of that city a report of the Police in which the agents warned of « strong signs » of crimes of corruption and money laundering in the heritage in Spain of Carmelo Ovono Obiang. The magistrate had previously issued cars in which he assured not appreciating indications of money laundering at the entrance of 793,000 euros in 200 200 bills in an account in the BBVA of the dictator’s son.

The son of the Guinean president, aka Didihe is 46 years old, he was the first head of the Special Forces of Bata and obtained the residence in Spain in 2020. He is married to a Spanish and has a daughter. I lived between Marbella and Malabo until in December 2022 Judge Santiago Pedraz transferred the complaint of families of the kidnapped and resigned to stop him when he was surrounded in a hotel in Madrid by the agents who had secretly investigated for two years. Since then he has not returned to Spain. To obtain the resident certificate, he presented an account with a balance of 431,378 euros in the BBVA.

During the police follow -ups to which he was subjected by the police, he was always accompanied by a Spanish driver and a Lebanese bodyguard, Ahmed Chaalan, 28. Two characters that became his shadow during his constant trips to Spain.

The focus of the investigation, initiated by the Court of Instruction number four of Marbella focuses on the Sociedad right Edita Brothers SL, based in that city. It was created by the high Guinean position and its name appears bank accounts in Spain.

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Confidential reports of the Police affirm that it is a company filed or screen, without real activity, and « it seems to be instrumentalized for the purpose of hiding and deriving remarkable amounts of money including the use of fiscal paradises. » The agents emphasize that this society has a “practically zero” structure, with a single holder and two proxies, the couple and mother of the investigated. The corporate purpose in the real estate of Dereck Edita Brothers SL is for the police a classic money laundering.

The Court of Marbella is supported, in addition to the Patrimonial Report of the Police, in a confidential report of the capital laundering prevention service (SEPBLAC). This Financial Intelligence Unit, under the Secretary of State for Economics, discovered that the autocrat’s son used a person of his trust to introduce 793,000 euros in Spain in tickets 200 euros and enter them an account at the BBVA in Marbella. Ovono Obiang also received transfers from a Guinean bank for 300,000 euros. In just 10 months he moved 1,100,000 euros, whose origin is unknown. The Bank’s compliance department warned of these movements and He blocked one of his accounts before the suspicion of a possible money laundering.

Police investigators conclude that Ovone has managed with their surroundings « notable amounts of money in cash » and that this money has been used to « significantly enrich » their heritage in Spain with the purchase of properties in Marbella and Barcelona. And they add that « the situation of risk of bleaching is such that there are even preventive blockages prior to the judicial » in their accounts in the BBVA.

Police have identified the Guinean lawyer Erick Mercader Penda, a man close to the regime, as the person who introduced money in Spain. Some amounts that Obiang’s son justified before the bank on the argument that they were destined to pay credits and mortgages of their properties.

Together with Ovono Obiang they are being investigated for kidnapping and torture of the four opponents, Interior Minister Nicolás Obama Nchama, aka Nico And Nguema Ondo, DaddyGeneral Director of Security. Despite the refusal of Judge Pedraz, the Criminal Chamber of the National Court ordered that will give Interpol a search order and international capture against the three.