2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt five calls to Sir Mark Thatcher in the days after the failed coup. On 13 January 2005, Mark Thatcher, in a South African court, pleaded guilty to helping finance a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea. South African police were able to prove that Mr Thatcher had transferred about US$285,000 to the mercenaries that were to execute the operation and had met and talked frequently to them prior to the coup attempt. After pleading guilty, he was given a four-year suspended sentence and a fine of about US$560,000. Simon Mann paid $500,000 (£281,000) towards the plot, according to a list of
Fiction set in Equatorial Guinea en la nieve" by Luz Gabás, as well as its 2015 film adaptation "Palm Trees in the Snow", are set in the 1950s and 1960s colonial Spanish Guinea and 2000's Equatorial Guinea. Fiction set in Equatorial Guinea There are several works of fiction set in Equatorial Guinea. Fernando Po, now Bioko, is featured prominently in the 1975 science fiction work "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. The island (and, in turn, the country) experience a series of coups in the story which lead the world to the verge of nuclear war. The story also hypothesizes that