Wonga list' reveals alleged backers of Equatorial Guinea coup
Friday, September 10, 2004 at 03:10AM
TheSpook
The British mercenary Simon Mann, who faces up to
10 years in jail today for trying to buy arms to overthrow the
president of Equatorial Guinea, paid $500,000 (£281,000) towards the
plot, according to a list of alleged financiers believed to be in the
hands of the South African police. Ely Calil, the London-based Lebanese
oil millionaire who is being sued in London by the Equatorial Guinea
regime, is alleged to have raised another $750,000. The allegations
come from the so-called "wonga list", written by one of those involved,
which claims to name the millionaire backers of the aborted coup. [more ]
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