A federal judge has refused to force a top government official of Equatorial Guinea to fly to Washington to contest the federal government’s effort to seize a multimillion-dollar jet from him.

U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington said Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue could respond to written questions from prosecutors about the jet, appear via video or talk on the phone.

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