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On July 2, 2024, the Spanish National Police (Policía Nacional) arrested a lawyer, suspected of bribing high-level officials in Equatorial Guinea. He is charged with corruption, money laundering, falsification of accounts, and forgery of documents.[1] The investigation, which was coordinated by the Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Corruption and Organized Crime and supported by the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), uncovered that the Spanish lawyer transferred nearly EUR 4.5 million through his project development company to obtain a contract to build a fishing industry company in Equatorial Guinea. On “action day,” Spanish law enforcement executed two house searches in Asturias seizing five pieces of real estate valued at EUR 4.5 million, EUR 30,000 in cash, and 21 bank accounts holding over EUR 2 million.[2] Their discoveries led to the lawyer’s eventual arrest.