A court in Equatorial Guinea has sentenced Baltasar Ebang Engonga, a nephew of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, to eight years in prison for embezzling public funds while heading the National Financial Investigation Agency. The tribunal found that Engonga diverted money claimed as travel allowances—ranging between $8,900 and $221,500—for personal use and ordered him to pay a fine of roughly $220,000. Engonga, 55, gained notoriety last year when dozens of sex-tapes featuring him were leaked while he was already under investigation for corruption. The episode was widely viewed as ending any political ambitions he may have harboured in the oil-rich Central African state, where his uncle is the world’s longest-serving head of state, in power since 1979. The conviction is the second high-profile ruling in Bioko this week. On Tuesday, the same court jailed Ruslan Obiang Nsue, one of the president’s sons, for illegally selling a Ceiba Intercontinental aircraft and pocketing the proceeds. The back-to-back verdicts underscore a rare public crackdown on senior figures within the Obiang family and government.