Nick du Toit

Nick du Toit is an arms dealer implicated in the plot to overthrow Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea. He is on trial in Malabo along with 18 other men accused of being the advance party for 70 other suspected mercenaries. The prosectution is asking for the death penalty.

His job in the coup de etat was to supply the mercenaries with arms including AK47s, RPGs, PK machine guns, and mortars, and to secure the control tower at the Malabo airport and change the frequency to establish communication with the incoming plane from Zimbabwe carrying more mercenaries.

See also: Simon Mann Mark Thatcher