Equatorial Guinea officials to question Mark Thatcher, probe Armenian comp

Mark Thatcher (R) is arrested at his home in Cape Town on August 25
Posted: 05 September 2004 0125 hrs


MALABO : A team of state prosecutors from Equatorial Guinea was set to leave Malabo for South Africa to question Mark Thatcher over his alleged involvement in a complex bid to oust President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, a government source said.

Another legal team from the tiny, oil-rich country on Africa's west coast was in Armenia to probe a local air transport company's alleged involvement in the same coup plot, a judicial official said Saturday.

Thatcher, 51, the millionaire son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, was arrested in a dawn raid on his luxury Cape Town home on August 25 and charged with bankrolling a mercenary plot to oust Obiang, in power since 1979.

"A delegation from the public ministry led by Attorney General Jose Olo Obono will on Saturday travel to South Africa" to question Thatcher, said the source, who asked not to be named
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3627546.stm

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Thatcher son could be interviewed :shrug:
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Sir Mark Thatcher may be :shrug:
interviewed over his
involvement in an alleged
African coup.

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The delegation is due to arrive on
Sunday and its inquiries could :shrug:
include an interview with the businessman.

He was freed from house arrest on Friday, reportedly after the
£167,000 bail was paid by Baroness Thatcher, 78. :puke:



According to a High Court action in London launched by Equatorial Guinea,
the aim of the plotters was to replace the president with Severo Moto, an
opposition politician exiled in Spain. Mr Obiang's government has accused
the former Spanish government of Jose Maria Aznar of complicity, and
according to Mr Obono, Britain and the US were "fully aware" of the intended
coup. "We received warnings from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Angola, but
nothing from Britain or America," he said. "There are indications that they,
like Spain, were prepared to recognise a Severo Moto government."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=558353