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Brazil police seize $16m from Equatorial Guinea VP's delegation

Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema (left) and Vice President who is also his son. [Courtesy]

Reports indicate that more than $16m in cash and luxury watches were seized at an airport in Brazil in the luggage of a delegation accompanying the son of the president of Equatorial Guinea.

Teodorin Nguema Obiang, Vice President of Equatorial Guinea and son of its longtime President, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, arrived on Friday on a private plane at Viracopos airport near São Paulo as part of an 11-person delegation.

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