The playboy son of Africa's longest serving dictator on trial in Paris accused of siphoning off millions of pounds from his impoverished country has chronicled his life of luxury in hundreds of extraordinary social media posts.
Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, 47, who was made Equatorial Guinea's vice-president and security chief by his father, is pictured skiing, abseiling, scuba diving, walking with lions, partying with semi-naked women, sipping champagne, enjoying helicopter rides, eating in five-star restaurants and driving super cars, top-of-the-range motorbikes, speed boats and submersibles around a series of palatial estates.
Posting under the name Teddy Nguema, often using the hashtag #luxuryliving, he reveals a life of astonishing wealth and privilege at a time when three quarters of the population of his tiny, oil-rich west African nation live below the poverty line.
Over the past three years, more than 800 photographs show Obiang on holiday and attending sports tournaments, beer festivals and carnivals in Tahiti, Hawaii, Capri, Portofino, St Bart's, Trinidad and Tobago, Hong Kong, Aruba, Dubai, Brazil, Switzerland, Cuba, Germany and the Bahamas.
President Obiang, who was once a prison governor, came to power in the former Spanish colony of just 750,000 people by toppling then executing his uncle in 1979. He has since won a series of elections in his country with a dubious 90 per cent or more share of the vote.
This week, a Paris court launched the trial in absentia of the president's son, accusing him of corruption, money laundering and embezzlement.
The trial is part of a wider-ranging clamp-down by France on African dictators and their cronies who are accused of sinking their ill-gotten gains into luxury assets in Europe.
Posting under the name Teddy Nguema, often using the hashtag #luxuryliving, he reveals a life of astonishing wealth and privilege at a time when three quarters of the population of his tiny, oil-rich west African nation live below the poverty line.
Over the past three years, more than 800 photographs show Obiang on holiday and attending sports tournaments, beer festivals and carnivals in Tahiti, Hawaii, Capri, Portofino, St Bart's, Trinidad and Tobago, Hong Kong, Aruba, Dubai, Brazil, Switzerland, Cuba, Germany and the Bahamas.
President Obiang, who was once a prison governor, came to power in the former Spanish colony of just 750,000 people by toppling then executing his uncle in 1979. He has since won a series of elections in his country with a dubious 90 per cent or more share of the vote.
This week, a Paris court launched the trial in absentia of the president's son, accusing him of corruption, money laundering and embezzlement.
The trial is part of a wider-ranging clamp-down by France on African dictators and their cronies who are accused of sinking their ill-gotten gains into luxury assets in Europe.
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