Britain accused of failing to investigate Africa coup

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The Times
By Andrew Pierce and Daniel McGrory


BRITISH security services were accused yesterday of failing to investigate British businessmen over their alleged links to a failed African coup.

Officials from Equatorial Guinea were in London demanding to know why the British authorities have not kept their promise to question figures who allegedly bankrolled the botched coup.

The delegation claims that up to eight British-based businessmen played a role, including the disgraced Tory peer, Jeffrey Archer.

One senior official told The Times: “This was a conspiracy to murder a president, overthrow a legitimate government and surely falls under the definition of terrorism and yet nothing has been done about it here. This coup attempt was in large part financed from Britain. We were given undertakings that the British-based suspects would be investigated here but nothing has been done.”
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