Morning Star.png Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Fraud in 1999 Arms Deal James Tweedie, The Morning Star, London, 22 April 2016 South African President Jacob Zuma announced yesterday that an inquiry he commissioned into a 1999 multibillion-rand arms deal had revealed no fraud. Britain's BAE Systems, Sweden's Saab, Germany's Thyssen Krupp and France's Thales and Thomson-CSF were all accused of offering bribes to secure lucrative contracts to supply warships, tanks, jet fighters and helicopters to the South African military. Mr Zuma was sacked as vice-president in 2005 after his associate Schabir Shaik was convicted of corruption and fraud with respect to the deal and his relationship with Mr Zuma. The African National Congress welcomed Mr Zuma's release of Judge Willie Seriti's findings yesterday from the four-year inquiry, which ended last year. It found that there was no evidence of improper influence in the bidding process. Former Nedbank executive, journalist and Economists for Peace and Security chairman Terry Crawford-Browne brought the case through the Constitutional Court in 2010. Mr Zuma was first implicated in 2005 when his friend and financial supporter Mr Shaik was convicted of two counts of corruption - of paying Mr Zuma in furtherance of a corrupt relationship and of soliciting a bribe for Zuma from Thomson-CSF - and of fraudulently writing off loans at the Nkobi Group. Then-president Thabo Mbeki forced Mr Zuma - who as KwaZulu-Natal provincial premier until 1999 had no role in negotiating the arms deal - to resign that year. From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-55f7-South-Africa-Inquiry-finds-1999-ar ms-deal-free-of-fraud,-says-Zuma#.Vxm-fPl9600 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
