Authorities successful Equatorial Guinea opportunity they will instal surveillance cameras successful authorities offices aft a authorities charismatic allegedly recorded hundreds of activity videos
ByEMMANUEL TUMANJONG Associated Press
November 5, 2024, 8:41 AM
YAOUNDE, Cameroon -- Authorities successful Equatorial Guinea connected Tuesday announced plans to instal surveillance cameras successful authorities offices, nan latest successful a drawstring of actions taken successful consequence to a ungraded involving a authorities charismatic who allegedly recorded hundreds of activity videos.
Baltasar Ebang Engonga, head of nan country's National Financial Investigation Agency, has been suspended and is being investigated, Equatorial Guinea’s Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue said successful a station connected X.
Public investigators were searching Engonga’s machine successful nan people of a probe into alleged corruption and embezzlement of nationalist costs erstwhile they recovered up to 400 activity videos of him and aggregate women, immoderate of them wives and relatives of elder authorities officials, section media reported.
Some of nan videos were reported to person leaked and gone viral connected societal media, prompting daze and outrage from officials.
It was not clear if nan intersexual activities pinch nan women were consensual aliases if immoderate of nan women had lodged general complaints against him.
“The authorities want to found whether nan man deliberately utilized these relationships to dispersed a imaginable illness among nan population,” Prosecutor General Anatolio Nzang Nguema was quoted arsenic saying. Engonga could look prosecution for endangering nationalist health, he said.
In nan aftermath of nan scandal, Mangue said that authorities offices will soon person surveillance cameras “to eliminate improper and illicit behaviour.” Anyone caught having immoderate shape of intersexual activity successful an agency will beryllium sacked, he said.