NAIROBI, Aug. 31 (Xinhuanet) -- The trial of 19 people charged with plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea to topple its president was suspended indefinitely on Tuesday at the request of the prosecution.

    Attorney General Jose Olo Obono asked for the suspension, saying new findings have emerged concerning the financing of the alleged conspiracy since the South African authorities arrested Mark Thatcher, son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, according to report reaching here from Equatorial Guinea.

    The three-judge panel agreed to suspend the trial, giving no indication of when it may resume.

    "This court decrees the suspension of this trial for the time it will take for all complementary investigations to be conducted," Judge Salvador Ondo Ncumu told the court.

    Mark Thatcher was arrested Wednesday at his Cape Town home, accused of contributing 275,000 US dollars to the alleged plot to install a new regime in Equatorial Guinea.

    Eighty-eight men are in custody in Equatorial Guinea, Zimbabwe and South Africa for the alleged plot to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang, who has ruled the country for 25 years.

    Equatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony located between volcanic islands and a mountainous jungle mainland, has become thethird-biggest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa. Enditem