Leaked papers show arms companies paid kickbacks

From Mail & Guardian 2000

South Africa's Cabinet announced in 1998 that it would spend £240 million (30 billion rand) buying arms from several foreign firms. The following year opposition MP Patricia de Lille produced papers containing allegations of corruption and bribery over the deal.

In 2000 the Mail & Guardian published details from an internal government document which proved the Cabinet had been explicitly warned it could not afford to spend so much on its arms acquisitions. In 2008 the same newspaper published more documents leaked from within the police which suggested senior South Africans had received commissions and bribes in return for favouring certain arms companies in relation to the deal.

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