David Leigh and David Pallister
Saturday November 27, 2004
The Guardian
The Obiang regime in Equatorial Guinea yesterday jailed 11 foreign mercenaries for up to 34 years, as documents surfaced further implicating Mark Thatcher in a British-led coup attempt which has caused international embarrassment.
A long memo from the Old Etonian mercenary Simon Mann, said to be at the heart of the plot, has been seized by authorities in South Africa. A court there ruled this week that Mark Thatcher will face trial in April.
The memo, written before the coup attempt, refers to "MT", identified to the South African prosecutors as Mr Thatcher by a key witness.
The document taken from the plotters' computer says Mr Thatcher's role must be kept secret, or the coup would be at risk: "If involvement becomes known, rest of us, and project, likely to be screwed as a side-issue to people screwing him".
More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/equatorialguinea/story/0,15013,1360972,00.htmlJUST WAITING for the news to break that Thatcher's neighbor in Johannesburg MARC RICH - the oil trader/fraudster busted by the Internal Revenue but pardoned by Clinton after ex-wife Denise Rich put the screw on - may have been in on the original plot to oust Obiang, freeze his $500million assets in RIGGS BANK and take over EG's valuable oil trading......also that JEFF SKILLING, ex-Enron executive now facing New Year trial along with Fastow and Lay, paid Thatcher up to $10 million for "consultacies" between 1997-2000, which were paid into offshore accounts in the Channel Islands and are now under the control of Thatcher's Texan-born wife Diane Burgdorf in nominal trust accounts "held beneficially for the Thatcher children"....
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