In the plea agreement and in the lawyer 's public statement , Sir Mark was cast as a sidelines player in a sprawling effort to unseat Equatorial Guinea 's president , Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo , the unchallenged ruler of a nation almost the size of Maryland that would have gone unnoticed if offshore gushers had not turned it into one of Africa 's largest oil producers lately .
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