Friday, August 27, 2004

More on the Equatorial Guinea coup plot

The elite Scorpions squad plan to fly to London to interview the businessmen suspected of bankrolling the ill-fated operation.

The men who arrested former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher's son have a list of individuals believed to have invested up to £100,000 in return for instant rewards when oil-rich Equatorial Guinea's government was overthrown.

The top name is the "JH Archer" who paid £74,000 into a Guernsey bank account held by mercenary leader Simon Mann just four days before he and a planeload of men were arrested in Zimbabwe.

Lawyers for Lord Archer, whose Christian names are Jeffrey Howard, have stopped short of denying he paid the money but insist he had "no prior knowledge" of the plot.
  News.com. (Australia) article

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

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