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In sultry Equatorial Guinea, the plot thickens...

In four hours of exhilarating testimony yesterday, old Etonian soldier of fortune, Simon Mann spilt the beans on the trail of black gold stretching from the oil fields of West Africa to the opulent mansions of Cape Town and Kensington...and on to Washington....

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In court, Mann named Sir Mark Thatcher as a prime player in the failed coup attempt against the President of the oil-rich little country in 2004. Thatcher, of course, has only admitted to "unknowingly" help fund the coup by investing in a helicopter that he claims to have thought was going to be used for humanitarian purposes...

Now you can’t really blame Thatcher for letting himself get sucked into this mess. His $275,000 investment for access to a $150 billion pool of oil must have seemed like a splendid bargain. In fact, if there had been a little AIM-listed company that allowed us to take a punt on the coup, it might not have seemed like a bad bet either...

"Thicky Mork" is a side-show

It’s the Thatcher connection that has got the British media all excited, but "Thicky Mork" Thatcher is really the least interesting bit of this story as far as we are concerned. It is Mann’s claim that the attempted coup was in effect an "official operation" sanctioned by the Spanish and South African governments that we are interested in. Even more than that, is his assertion that the coup had the blessings of Washington...

In his testimony, Mann revealed that the Pentagon, the CIA and the US oil companies who have invested heavily in Equatorial Guinea were sounded out before the coop attempt., And all of them indicated that a "well-conducted change of government would be welcome". It drives home the point that the new "scramble for Africa" is in full-swing. This is where some of the most profitable investment opportunities in the next few years are going to be found.

Rather patriotically, though, Mann has refused to implicate the British Government, instead claiming to be "amazed" on later learning that it had been aware of the plot.

No surprises about Mann’s claims of foreign government backing though. Africa has been a playground for the global powers for over a century. From the Scramble for Africa in 19th century to the Soviet-American contest on the continent during the Cold War. What it has always come down to, though, is the continent’s legendary wealth of natural resources...

The Americans are desperate to secure West Africa’s oil supply for themselves. It’s why they’ve stationed a naval fleet off the West African coast...

Which is why we believe that our investment in a certain African Port is such a valuable asset... (learn more about this play right now...)

The trial is also turning the spotlight on one of the shadowy international tycoons who operates in Africa — and on the kind of stakes that these people play for.

Mann stood to make $15 million personally if the coup had worked. The pay-off for the alleged mastermind of the coup, Ely Calil, would probably have made that look like peanuts...

Introducing the Ring-master...

Ely Claude Alan Calil was born in Nigeria in 1945, and was privately educated in Europe. He inherited £20 million on the death of his Lebanese father when he was just 22. The young Calil didn’t waste any time in increasing that very quickly. He focused on Nigeria’s rapidly emerging crude oil industry and expanded into manufacturing batteries and building and selling trucks. Reports claim that he developed a close relationship with the former Nigerian dictator General Ibrahim Babangida, who came to power in a 1985 coup.

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Calil is now said to be worth £100 million. He owns a six-acre home on Billionaires’ Row in Hampstead and has other properties in Kensington, Switzerland and Lagos. You may remember him from another scandal in 2002. He was arrested in Paris, accused of taking £40 million in backhanders in the Elf-Aquitaine scandal for allegedly arranging a contract for the French oil company in Nigeria. He was released without charge.

He avoids the limelight, but Calil has had some very flashy friends. He partied with likes of Sir Jimmy Goldsmith, Mark Aspinall and Mark Birley, owner of legendary Mayfair nightclub, Annabel’s. And he’s close to many of the rich and powerful in Britain, Nigeria and the Middle East. Ely Calil has obviously done well for himself. But in the scramble for Africa’s resources, he’s relatively small fry.

Your next recommendation...

On Tuesday, Profit Hunter will be releasing its latest investment recommendation. It takes us right into the heart of the Congo, alongside a group of shadowy tycoons whose fortunes make the likes of Ely Calil look very shabby.

Their manoeuvrings have given them control of an asset so valuable that the European powers, African dictators, mercenaries and rebel militants have been fighting over it for more than a century...

And they got their hands on it by bankrolling a little "coup" of their own...

You can be first to learn all the details of my latest manoeuvre... and get in on this investment before anybody else. Learn more now...

Regards,

Manraaj Singh
Editor
Profit Hunter

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