Nigel Jeremy Morgan (25 September 1954, in Woking, Surrey – 17 November 2018, in Harrismith, South Africa) was a British-South African security consultant.
A former British Army officer with close ties to South African intelligence, he was credited with exposing an attempted coup against the government of Equatorial Guinea in 2004.
[3] What followed was stints prospecting for gold in the Yukon with a friend from the Scots Guards and a haphazard gold-buying venture in Liberia in which he lost $1 million of investors’ money on gold-coated brass.
His talent for this work was clear and he became friends with politicians and figures in the intelligence community, and produced analysis for high profile risk management firms in London.
[5] In 2004 he was named in connection with the so-called 'Wonga plot', a coup attempt against President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the dictator of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.
[9] In 2017 Al Jazeera Investigates interviewed Morgan as part of their ground-breaking documentary, 'The Poacher's Pipeline', which was premiered at the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival in New York.
After a successful stint in residential rehab in 2017, he began drinking again in 2018 and died of the accumulated damage to his liver later that year surrounded by his family and friends.