A court in Equatorial Guinea has handed an eight-year prison sentence to Baltasar Ebang Engonga, a former top government official, for embezzlement.
Engonga, who drew public attention after the leak of multiple sextapes involving him and several women, was found guilty by the Bioko provincial tribunal of misappropriating funds allocated for official travel and diverting them for personal use.
Hilario Mitogo, press director of the Supreme Court, confirmed the ruling on Monday.
He was also fined $220,000.
Engonga, a former head of the national financial investigation agency, was tried alongside five other senior officials accused of misappropriating hundreds of thousands of dollars in public funds.
The case follows his detention in November, when videos of him with women, including the spouses of other officials, surfaced on social media while investigations into the embezzlement charges were ongoing.