Thatcher Posts Bail to End S.Africa House Arrest
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa  - Mark Thatcher, arrested  in South Africa last week on suspicion of financing an  attempted coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, was released from  house arrest Friday after posting 2 million rand bail.
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PRETORIA -- Sir Mark Thatcher, son of the former British prime minister, avoided jail and agreed to pay a $500,000 fine yesterday after pleading guilty for what he called his unwitting role in a failed plot last year to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea, a tiny, oil-rich West African nation long ruled by a dictator.
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Mark Thatcher, the son of the former United Kingdom prime minister, was arraigned in court yesterday following his arrest over an alleged coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea.
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Sir Mark Thatcher has arrived at a magistratesâ court in South Africa for a hearing on charges that he allegedly helped bankroll a coup attempt that failed in Equatorial Guinea.
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Malabo, Equatorial Guinea - Equatorial Guinea said on Saturday that it had requested international arrest warrants for Sir Mark Thatcher, son of the former British prime minister, and other Britons implicated here in an alleged coup plot.
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Mark Thatcher, the son of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has been arrested in South Africa on suspicion of involvement in a mercenary plot against the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.
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Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher agreed to pay the 165,000-pound bail (about 297,000 US dollars) required to release her son Mark Thatcher from house arrest in
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Former British Prime Minister  Margaret Thatcher's son was planning to leave South Africa  before his arrest on suspicion of involvement in a coup attempt  in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, police said on Thursday.
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Sir Mark Thatcher was planning a move from South Africa to Texas when he was arrested over the alleged involvement in a coup plot, a South African prosecutor said today.
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LONDON, - Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was distressed to learn her son Mark had been arrested in South Africa and charged with funding a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea, but was confident he would be found innocent, her spokesman
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FORMER prime minister and doting mother Margaret Thatcher yesterday agreed to bail her son, Sir Mark Thatcher, out of house arrest in Cape Town.
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LONDON  - Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher has posted bail for her son Mark, who is accused of involvement in a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea, a source close to Thatcher said Wednesday.
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First, the son of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was caught in his pyjamas when police raided his Cape Town home. Then he was robbed in a holding cell while waiting to be charged with helping finance a foiled coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea.
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Former British Prime Minister Margaret  Thatcher is "distressed" about her son's arrest in South Africa  on suspicion of involvement in a coup plot in oil-rich  Equatorial Guinea, a spokesman said Thursday.
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Mark Thatcher, who denies funding a foiled coup in Africa, has agreed a plea bargain with a South African court in return for a lighter sentence, a family source said on Wednesday.
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The South African government said Friday it has not received any request from Equatorial Guinea to extradite Briton Mark Thatcher who is under home arrest in Cape Town
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa South African police say Mark Thatcher was planning to leave South Africa for Dallas when he was arrested in an alleged coup plot.