Friends confirmed that former British Army official and mercenary Mercenary Simon Mann had a coup in Equatorial Guinea (Equatorial Guinea) in 2004, and he died of a heart attack while exercising.
The 72-year-old made millions of pounds protected from conflict zones before he participated in a failed attempt to overthrow the rulers of West African countries.
Mann was sentenced to 34 years in prison for armed charges and later said he was the “manager, not the architect” of the program.
In 2009, the former SAS commando was pardoned, released, and given 48 hours to leave the country.
The plot is an attempt to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema – at the time Mann and his accomplices said the purpose was to install exiled opposition leader Severo Moto.
It was found after police in the Zimbabwe capital Harare seized a plane flying from South Africa.
Mann and over 60 others were arrested because they claimed it was a mercenary.
They said they are providing security for mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Mann attended Eton, a private boys school before joining the Scottish Guard before attending the Sandhurst Royal Military Academy.
He became a member of the SAS – Army Special Forces – and rose in the ranks to become the commander.
He said in 2011 that the attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea – he was arrested with mercenaries after trying to load weapons on a plane in Zimbabwe – the CIA was foiled.
After serving 34 years in Zimbabwe, he was moved to the Black Beach Prison in Equatorial Guinea.
He said of the move in 2011 that “friends, family and enemies” told him that “if this happens, you already have it, you are a dead person.”
After pardonation and release, he regrets what he has done, saying “how good money” and moral cases “must pile up.”
