Salvador Ondo Ncumu

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Salvador Ondo Ncumu is an Equatoguinean politician and former judge who has served as the country's Minister of Justice since 2018. He had previously served as Minister of Justice from 2008 to 2011. [1]

Career

Ondo Ncumu adjourned the trial of 14 suspected foreign mercenaries involved in the 2004 attempted coup d'état for 30 days at the prosecutor's request stating that more time was needed to investigate the case and that the suspension of the trial would end once all "complementary investigations" were conducted. [2] [3] He also read out the verdicts and sentences for the mercenaries and others involved in the coup which included 34 years for South African arms dealer Nick du Toit who would later be pardoned and 63 years for exiled opposition leader Severo Moto who was sentenced in absentia. [4] [5] The case received international media attention due to the involvement of Mark Thatcher who was fined separately in South Africa in connection with the coup. [6] [4]

In August 2010, Ondo Ncumu held a four-day inauguration seminar for the Institute of Judicial Practice of Equatorial Guinea. [7] The seminar's main purpose was for it to be a public presentation of the institute and to celebrate the eighteenth birthday of the judiciary in Equatorial Guinea. [7]

In a January 2011 cabinet reshuffle, he was succeeded as Minister of Justice by Francisco Javier Ngomo who had been the president of the Constitutional Court. [8]

As President of the Constitutional Court of Equatorial Guinea he was in charge of validating and reading out the results of the 2017 legislative election which saw the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea obtain 99 of the 100 deputies of the Chamber of Deputies. [9]

He was reappointed as Minister of Justice in February 2018. [10] In October 2019, he met with his Moroccan counterpart Mohamed Ben Abdelkader  [ fr ] in Marrakesh, whilst attending the second International Justice Conference. [11]

In February 2022, Ondo Ncumu presented the Penal Code of Equatorial Guinea bill to the Commission of Justice and Human Rights after its review in the Chamber of Deputies as part of a political program to update and nationalize the legal system of Equatorial Guinea. [12] The bill was conceived and sponsored by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and was an elaboration of a draft from 2009. [12]

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  2. ↑ "Equatorial Guinea judge suspends coup trial". The Irish Times . Ireland. 31 August 2004. Archived from the original on 24 April 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  3. ↑ "Coup trial to resume in 30 days". IOL . 1 September 2004. Archived from the original on 24 April 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  4. 1 2 "Equatorial Guinea coup plotters receive long jail terms" . The Times . Malabo. 26 November 2004. Archived from the original on 12 September 2021. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  5. ↑ "Q&A: Equatorial Guinea coup plot". BBC News . Archived from the original on 24 April 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  6. ↑ Meldrum, Andrew; Wilson, Jamie (2 September 2004). "Lady Thatcher pays £165,000 bail for Sir Mark". The Guardian . Pretoria. Archived from the original on 24 April 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  7. 1 2 "Salvador Ondo Nkumu clausuró el seminario de inauguración del Instituto de Práctica Judicial". Guinea Ecuatorial Press (in Spanish). 10 August 2010. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  8. ↑ "Obiang remodela el Gobierno dando entrada a partidos de la oposición parlamentaria". La Información (in Spanish). 27 January 2011. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  9. ↑ "El Tribunal Constitucional valida los resultados definitivos de las elecciones legislativas y municipales, con la plena victoria del PDGE". PDGE (in Spanish). Malabo. 20 November 2017. Archived from the original on 24 April 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  10. ↑ "Nombramiento de los Ministros del Gobierno". PDGE (in Spanish). 6 February 2018. Archived from the original on 24 April 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  11. ↑ "El Ministro de Justicia de Marruecos concede audiencia a su homólogo ecuatoguineano". Guinea Ecuatorial Press (in Spanish). 21 October 2019. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
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