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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Molly Quell

Equatorial Guinea urges UN to block the sale of a Paris mansion seized by France

Equatorial Guinea France Mansion - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Lawyers for Equatorial Guinea accused France of “neo-colonial” behavior on Tuesday, urging United Nations judges to block the sale of a mansion on one of Paris’ poshest avenues in the latest instalment in a long-running legal tug-of-war over the multimillion-dollar property.

The African country filed a case at the International Court of Justice in 2022, alleging France is violating international law by refusing to return assets seized during a corruption investigation into Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the son of Equatorial Guinea’s long-serving president.

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