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MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was formally charged in Equatorial Guinea in an alleged coup plot.
Thatcher was accused of having helped finance the coup attempt, Sky News reported, quoting Jone Olo Obono, attorney general of the tiny West African country.
Thatcher was added to the existing list of 19 other defendants, who are all accused mercenaries.
Equatorial Guinea intends to seek Thatcher's extradition. Thatcher was arrested in August at his home in South Africa.
Equatorial Guinea claims the takeover plot involved Thatcher and other, mainly British, financiers, working with Equatorial Guinea opposition figures alongside scores of South African mercenaries and six Armenian pilots.
The men are accused of planning to end the 25-year regime of President Teodoro Obiang, installing an exiled opposition figure to lead Africa's third-largest oil producer.
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