An Obiang pilot confesses that he transferred “detainees” to Equatorial Guinea in the presidential plane | Spain

A Greek pilot at the service of Teodoro Obiangpresident of Equatorial Guinea, has confessed at the National Court that moved in the presidential plane several times to « detainees » from African countries to Malabo, capital of the African country. The statement of this witness at the judicial headquarters confirms the testimony of the four Ecuatoguinean opponents residing in Madrid which were kidnapped in 2019 and transferred to the former Spanish colony in the official plane of the president. One of them has died.

Obiang chases his opponents until the last corner of the planet and in all cases his hunt has a common pattern. They are kidnapped in African countries to those who travel by deception and from there they are transferred, hooded and drugged on the president’s plane to Guinean prisons. There they are tortured and judged by alleged coups.

A confidential report of the General Police Information Police Station (CGI), as well as works by various NGOs, the UN and the United States Department of State affirm that Obiang’s secret services They have kidnapped 34 dissidents Between 1997 and 2019. The last are four residents in Madrid, two of them with Spanish nationality. The victims are Martin Obiang Ondo, Feliciano Efa MangueWelcome Ndong and Julio Obama, the latter dead in non -clarified circumstances. They are the latest protagonists of a long kidnapping list and harassment that Obiang’s secret services starring impunity for decades.

Flights without official registration

Evangelos Kazalis, who worked as a pilot for the presidency of Obiang for six years, appeared by videoconference on April 24 before the Judge Santiago Pedrazinvestigating the case. In his statement, to which the country has had access, he acknowledged having transferred “detainees” on the autocratic plane of the autocrat.

« Do you know that the 145 3C-QQ Embraer plane has been used to transfer to detainees? Asked the lawyer Aitor Martínez, representative of the families of the kidnapped, to the pilot. The witness, before answering he meditated for several seconds.

– « Yes, I have participated in flights in which he moved to detainees, but always accompanied by police officers … It was not a frequent thing, but it happened once or twice. They were from Western Africa. I remember one from Abiyán, in Ivory Coast. »

On the kidnapping date this pilot had stopped flying and was the instructor of the aviators who piloted the presidential plane.

Georgios Kappos, co -pilot of the presidential plane, said he does not remember having traveled on the flight in which he moved to the kidnapped or having transferred to detainees. But he identified two other pilots who could have been at the controls of the apparatus on the day of the kidnapping and General Francisco Asumu Obama, Pacoas in charge of ordering flights.

Contrary to Commander Kazalis, who did scored in the book of records all his flights, this pilot acknowledged not having registered in his Log Book (Flight Registration) of the Greek Aviation Authority None of those carried out between 2018 and 2022 with the 145 Embraer of President Obiang. « I have it as personal information, I’m not obliged to do it, » he replied. The regulations of the European Aviation Agency requires that all the journeys be noted.

On November 16, 2019, the four opponents kidnapped in Yuba (South Sudan) ended up hooded on the presidential plane of Obiang towards a Guinean prison. « It was the presidency’s plane, a white plane, put C, 0, 3. After taking off we put an injection into the ass, » Ndong welcomed a protected witness who has declared in the case after fleeing from Equatorial Guinea. According to that testimony, they were traveling in the device Carmelo Ovono Obiangson of the President, Secretary of State and Vice Minister of Foreign Security; Nicolás Obama Nchama, Interior Minister; and Nguema Ondo, general director of Security.

The four kidnapped were imprisoned in Equatorial Guinea, tortured and sentenced to sentences between 60 and 90 years in jail for an alleged attempted coup d’etat. Julio Obama, 61, died two weeks after Carmelo Ovono Obiang knew that he was being investigated in Spain for crimes of terrorism and torture. The judge Santiago Pedraz, research instructor, resigned to stop him When the police had located him in a hotel in Madrid.