The Scorpions have yet to wrap up their probe into South Africa's multibillion-rands arms deal, National Directorate of Public Prosecutions spokesman Sipho Ngwema confirmed today.

He was asked about a report in Business Day, which said the government's final report on the arms procurement deal had been heavily edited and had left out findings on gifts received by key players in the controversial deal.

The final report, handed to parliament last year, also omitted "inaccuracies" in a Defence Department presentation to parliament's public accounts committee (Scopa), the newspaper said.

It cited draft reports released last week to managing director Richard Young of C2I2, an electronics firm that put in an unsuccessful bid for part of the deal.

Young charged that three of his company's electronic systems were deselected from use in SA Navy corvettes due to irregularities in the procurement process.

Earlier this year, he won a court order forcing Auditor-General Shauket Fakie to hand over official documents relating to an investigation into the deal.

Fakie, NDPP director Bulelani Ngcuka and former Public Protector Selby Baqwa investigated the deal.

Fakie said on Tuesday there were good reasons for not including some items in the final report.

He denied the changes had beenat the behest of senior members of the government, the newspaper said.

The draft states: "In the Scopa presentations, it is stated ‘at no point in the entire tender process did the SA Navy indicate a preference for the C2I2 IMS (information management system) product or technology, even though the SA Navy being (sic) a co-owner of the C2I2 IMS Technology'.

"It is the view of the investigation teams that the C2I2 IMS was the preferred database of the SA Navy, at least up to a point."

Young was "infuriated" that this crucial finding by the investigators was omitted from the final draft.

He told Business Day he had instructed his lawyers to prepare charges including perjury, contempt of court and defeating the ends of justice.

With acknowledgements to Sapa and the Cape Argus.