Executive Summary of Findings — Foreign Support for Corruption in Equatorial Guinea (Senate Riggs Report, 2004)

The 2004 U.S. Senate investigation into Riggs Bank uncovered extensive and coordinated corruption involving the Government of Equatorial Guinea, major foreign oil corporations, and international banks operating across multiple jurisdictions. The report provides clear evidence that foreign institutions facilitated, concealed, and profited from a massive diversion of national oil revenues.

1. Foreign Government and State Actor Involvement

Riggs Bank managed over 60 accounts for the Government of Equatorial Guinea, its leading officials, and the President’s family, holding $400–700 million at any given moment.
Key findings include:

• The President, his wife, and his children personally controlled several state-linked accounts.

• Riggs Bank created offshore shell companies for these officials to hide ownership of funds.

• Nearly $13 million in cash was deposited into accounts held by the President and his wife with no due diligence.

• At least $35 million of oil revenue was transferred from government accounts to anonymous foreign companies in secrecy jurisdictions, one believed to be controlled by the President.

• When questioned about the destination of funds, the President refused to disclose beneficiaries.

These actions demonstrate direct foreign financial collaboration with Equatorial Guinea’s ruling elite.

2. Corporate Complicity — U.S. Oil Companies

The report identifies major U.S. oil firms — ExxonMobil, Amerada Hess, and Marathon — as key contributors to corrupt practices through:

• Large undisclosed payments to government officials, their relatives, or their controlled entities.

• Transfers mislabeled as “land leases,” “security,” or “scholarship support” but paid directly into personal or corporate accounts of the ruling family.

• A formal joint venture where ExxonMobil’s 15% partner company (Abayak S.A.) was owned and controlled by the President himself.

• Other oil companies entering business partnerships with entities owned by Equatorial Guinea’s political elite.

These arrangements legitimized and financially reinforced the kleptocratic network.

3. International Banking Secrecy and Obstruction

When investigators attempted to identify recipients of suspicious fund transfers:

• HSBC USA and Banco Santander refused transparency, citing Luxembourg and Spanish secrecy laws.

• This secrecy prevented identification of beneficial owners of offshore companies receiving millions from Equatorial Guinea’s accounts.

The Senate concluded that European secrecy laws posed a “significant obstacle” to anti–money laundering efforts and actively shielded corrupt actors.

4. Regulatory Failures (U.S. and Foreign)

Regulatory bodies also played a role:

• The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) knew of Riggs Bank’s violations for years but failed to enforce controls until public pressure forced action.

• Foreign regulatory frameworks in Spain, Luxembourg, and the Bahamas enabled the laundering by supporting anonymous shell companies and blocking U.S. inquiries.

These failures allowed corruption to flourish unchecked for nearly a decade.

5. Final Senate Conclusion — International Complicity

The Senate’s official Finding (7) states:

Oil companies in Equatorial Guinea contributed to corruption by making large payments or entering business ventures with officials, family members, or their controlled companies, with minimal public disclosure.

The report explicitly confirms:

• Foreign corporate involvement

• Foreign banking secrecy protection

• Foreign governmental non-cooperation

— all of which enabled the systematic theft of Equatorial Guinea’s oil revenue.

6. Actors Implicated

Government of Equatorial Guinea
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, his family, and senior ministers.

Foreign Corporations
ExxonMobil, Amerada Hess, Marathon.

U.S. Financial Institution
Riggs Bank — central laundering entity.

Foreign Banks
HSBC (via Luxembourg affiliate), Banco Santander (Spain).

Secrecy Jurisdictions
Bahamas, Luxembourg, Spain.

Together, these actors created an international financial architecture that protected corruption, laundered public money, and blocked transparency.

Conclusion

The Senate’s Riggs Bank report provides clear, factual, and documented evidence that corruption in Equatorial Guinea was not isolated or internal.
It was enabled, supported, and protected by major foreign banks, multinational oil corporations, and government regulatory systems.

This represents one of the strongest documented cases of international complicity in African kleptocracy ever published in an official U.S. government report.

What the Riggs Report revealed is this:

1. The corruption was international — but the accountability was purely theatrical.

The U.S. Senate documented a multi-billion-dollar theft of a nation’s wealth, facilitated by:

• U.S. banks

• European banks

• U.S. oil corporations

• European secrecy jurisdictions

• Western regulatory failures

And yet:

❌ Not a single Western executive was indicted.
❌ Not a single Western politician was sanctioned.
❌ Not a single Western bank faced criminal prosecution.
❌ Not a single oil corporation lost its license.

Only Riggs Bank — a small, weak institution — was sacrificed as a symbolic scapegoat.

This is the defining feature of neo-colonial financial systems:
the African state is blamed, while the Western beneficiaries escape untouched.

2. Western support never changed — no matter who was in power.

For 45 years, regardless of whether the U.S. was run by Republicans or Democrats,
and whether Europe was run by conservatives or social democrats:

• Oil continued flowing.

• Payments to political families continued.

• Bank secrecy continued.

• Military cooperation continued.

• Diplomatic backing remained solid.

• Corruption was protected, not fought.

Because the corruption benefits them, not the people of Equatorial Guinea.

Western governments pretend to “promote democracy,” but in reality:

They defend the system that makes them rich, not the system that would make Africans free.

3. Why nobody was indicted: the geopolitical truth

Indicting Western corporations, banks, or officials would mean admitting:

• The West knowingly enabled theft of African oil revenues.

• U.S. and EU banks laundered billions.

• Western secrecy jurisdictions protected dictatorships.

• Oil multinationals financed repression.

• Anti-corruption laws were selectively enforced.

• Colonial economic extraction never ended — it simply changed form.

Such an admission would destroy the myth of Western moral superiority.

So they don’t indict.
They don’t apologize.
They don’t reform.

They simply continue.

4. The political and financial architecture is designed that way

The Western system depends on:

• Cheap African resources

• Weak African institutions

• Corruptible elites

• Banking secrecy

• Corporate immunity

• Diplomatic protection

Equatorial Guinea is a perfect example:
a small, wealthy, isolated country with massive natural resources and zero geopolitical risk.

For the West, it is the ideal laboratory for resource extraction without accountability.

5. The real victims: the people of Equatorial Guinea

For 45 years, people suffered:

• Poverty in a wealthy nation

• Hospitals without medicine

• Schools without resources

• Infrastructure neglected

• Youth without opportunity

• Families without justice

• A country held hostage by international interests

And the world pretends not to see it.

The West knows exactly what is happening.
They documented it themselves.
They described it in their own Senate.
They traced the money.
They named the corporations.
They exposed the banks.

And still — they protected the system.

Because the suffering is African.
And the profits are Western.

6. The truth is a historical fact

To summarize this with maximum clarity:

Equatorial Guinea is one of the clearest examples in modern history of a Western-protected kleptocracy, sustained by international banks, oil corporations, and geopolitical interests — with full continuity across U.S. and European governments for 45 years.

This is not opinion.
This is not speculation.
This is documented in official Western government investigations.

And yet — justice never came.

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