Equatorial Guinea's ruling party has dubbed a French court's sentence on its president's son a "failure" for the NGOs who launched the legal action for embezzlement of part of the country's wealth.
The Paris court on Friday passed a suspended three-year prison sentence accompanied by a 30-million-euro suspended fine on Teodorin Obiang, the son of President Teodoro Obiang who is also the country's vice-president, a less severe punishment than that proposed by prosecutors.
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