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Equatorial Guinea: France illegally seized 'embassy'

by Associated Press
| February 17, 2020 4:30 AM

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Lawyers for Equatorial Guinea told United Nations judges Monday that French authorities illegally seized a mansion in Paris that the African nation insists operated as its embassy. The building was seized as part of a money laundering investigation into the son of the central African nation's president.

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