On 7 March 2004, mercenaries organised by mainly British financiers were arrested in Zimbabwe when they planned to carry out a coup d'état attempt in the oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, the so-called Wonga Coup.
The plan was to get rid of Equatorial Guinea's brutal dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, and install the exiled Severo Moto as the new puppet president, who promised to give his foreign backers oil riches after he had become president.
The most interesting funder of the coup is the son of Lady of the Garter, former British PM Margaret Thatcher, Sir Mark Thatcher.
Mark Thatcher first denied all accusations, but then pleaded guilty to financing the coup plot in Equatorial Guinea in a South African court, for which he was fined without going to prison!
The suspect names came from the so-called "Wonga list" (after which the coup was named) by James Kershaw, who was Simon Mann's accountant. Mann was the prime suspect and fall guy, and the close friend of Mark Thatcher. Mann had worked for British Intelligence (SAS).
Kershaw was recruited by Nigel Morgan, another friend of Mann, who in turn was connected to the South African Secret Service.
While both Britain and the US denied orchestrating the plot, they don't deny that they received a full detailed plan months before the Wonga coup would be staged, including the dates, details of arms shipments and key players.
In December 2003 and January 2004, 2 highly detailed reports of the planned coup, from former commander in South African Special Forces Johann Smith, were sent to British intelligence (Jack Straw) and to a senior aide of then US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_E...%A9tat_attempt
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