A nephew of Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who was at the centre of a sex tape scandal last year, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for embezzlement.
Baltasar Ebang Engonga, the former head of the National Financial Investigation Agency, diverted money for personal use, a court ruled.
Nicknamed 'Bello' because of his good looks, the married Engonga gained notoriety last year, when he appeared in leaked videos having sex with different women - many of them wives and relatives of people close to the centre of power.
The leak occurred while he was in detention, accused of depositing a huge sum of embezzled money into secret accounts in the Cayman Islands.
He was found guilty along with five other officials who allegedly claimed the money as an allowance for travel - the amounts ranged from $9,000 (£6,600) to $220,000.
Engonga's arrest last October and public humiliation was seen as an attempt to destroy any hope of becoming the next president of the oil-rich central African state.
His uncle is the world's longest-serving president having been in power since 1979, and has appointed his son, Teodoro Obiang Mangue, as his vice-president.
Engonga, who used to investigate crimes like money laundering, found himself at the infamous Black Beach prison in the capital, Malabo, after being accused of corruption.
His phones and computers were seized, and shortly thereafter, explicit videos began surfacing online. The authenticity of the videos was never verified, but with the security forces in possession of his devices, speculation arose that it was an inside job aimed at tarnishing his reputation.
In addition to his prison sentence, Engonga was also fined $220,000, according to a report by the AFP news agency.
