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SOUTH AFRICA: Bribery Inquiry Blocked?

SOUTH AFRICA: Bribery Inquiry Blocked? A new book claims that President Mbeki was involved in killing off a parliamentary investigation into bribery claims. President Thabo Mbeki was allegedly involved in the ruling African National Congress ( ANC ) leadership's blocking of a parliamentary investigation into alleged bribery by BAE Systems and other weapons firms in the country's biggest ever arms deal, according to a former MP who was driven out of the ANC for spearheading the inquiry. Andrew Feinstein , a former ANC member of the parliament's public accounts committee, said the presidency killed off its investigation, pressured the auditor general to change a report criticising the £1.5bn deal to buy planes from BAE as “flawed”, and stymied an inquiry by the director of public prosecutions into whether the ruling party accepted bribes to fund its election campaigns. Mbeki has denied blocking the investigations but has characterised them as attempts to bring down his government. In a new book, After the Party , Feinstein, a Cambridge‐trained economist, reveals the extent to which Mbeki was involved in stopping the 2001 investigation. Feinstein has since moved to London and is cooperating with an inquiry by Britain ’s Serious Fraud Office into £75m in payments made http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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Wiley
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Copyright © 2007 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0001-9844
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1467-825X
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10.1111/j.1467-825X.2007.01398.x
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A new book claims that President Mbeki was involved in killing off a parliamentary investigation into bribery claims. President Thabo Mbeki was allegedly involved in the ruling African National Congress ( ANC ) leadership's blocking of a parliamentary investigation into alleged bribery by BAE Systems and other weapons firms in the country's biggest ever arms deal, according to a former MP who was driven out of the ANC for spearheading the inquiry. Andrew Feinstein , a former ANC member of the parliament's public accounts committee, said the presidency killed off its investigation, pressured the auditor general to change a report criticising the £1.5bn deal to buy planes from BAE as “flawed”, and stymied an inquiry by the director of public prosecutions into whether the ruling party accepted bribes to fund its election campaigns. Mbeki has denied blocking the investigations but has characterised them as attempts to bring down his government. In a new book, After the Party , Feinstein, a Cambridge‐trained economist, reveals the extent to which Mbeki was involved in stopping the 2001 investigation. Feinstein has since moved to London and is cooperating with an inquiry by Britain ’s Serious Fraud Office into £75m in payments made

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Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series – Wiley

Published: Dec 1, 2007

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