Baltasar Engonga Bags 8 Years Jail Term For Embezzlement After Sεx Tape Scandal

A court in Equatorial Guinea has sentenced senior official Baltasar Ebang Engonga to eight years in prison for embezzlement, months after he became infamous for sex tapes that went viral online.

The ruling was delivered on Wednesday by the Bioko provincial tribunal, which found Engonga guilty of misusing funds meant for official travel, according to Hilario Mitogo, press director of the country’s supreme court.

Baltasar Engonga, a former head of the national financial investigation agency, was accused alongside five other top officials of diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel allowances for personal gain.

The 62-year-old, popularly known as “Bello,” drew worldwide attention last November after sex videos of him with the wives of fellow officials surfaced on social media.

Some of the videos, reportedly filmed inside his finance ministry office, spread rapidly while he was already in detention awaiting trial.

The scandal triggered a flood of online mockery, with parody songs, dances, and even jokes about a fake virility drug called “Balthazariem.”

The Bioko provincial tribunal has now handed Engonga an eight-year sentence and a fine worth $220,000.

KanyiDaily recalls that Baltasar Engonga Ebang went viral in 2024 when explicit videos of him were leaked online, drawing widespread attention.