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08/27/2004:

"Talks to extradite Mark Thatcher"

MALABO : Equatorial Guinea and South Africa are discussing the possibility of extraditing Mark Thatcher, son of the former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, accused of bankrolling a coup plot in Malabo, an official said.

"Equatorial Guinea and South Africa are currently in very close contact with a view to allowing the Malabo government to lodge a demand for the extradition of Mark Thatcher as quickly as possible," lawyer Lucie Bourthoumieux, legal counsel to the government of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, said.

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