African dictator’s son gets mega-yacht designed in Germany
This is obscene when you look at the lifestyle of the average poor, the state of education, or the state of health, in this dictator’s country.
While most of Equatorial Guinea lives in poverty, the son of the country’s dictator has had a luxury yacht designed at a German shipyard. Transparency groups are seeking better control of cash flows from dubious regimes.
The London-based anti-corruption campaign group, Global Witness, said it has evidence that Teodorin Obiang, the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry of the tiny West African state of Equatorial Guinea, has plans to order a luxury yacht worth hundreds of millions of dollars from a shipyard in northern Germany.
In a report published today, Feb. 28th, the organization condemned the fact that Obiang, the son of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious president, spends vast amounts of money on personal vanity projects while his country’s citizens live in abject poverty.