Johannesburg - The Hawks say they are
in possession of a signed agreement in which
a German arms dealer agreed to pay a bribe
to a group represented by Shamim "Chippy"
Shaik, the Sowetan reported on Friday.
Shaik, the brother of convicted fraudster
Schabir Shaik, was working for the
defence department as chief of acquisitions
for the arms deal at the time.
The newspaper said it had a copy of the
English translation of an agreement signed
by Christopher Hoenings, who was at the time
an executive at German warship manufacturer
Thyssen.
"The last trip (July 27 to 30 1998) was
suggested by C Shaikh (sic), director
Defence Secretariat. During one of our
meetings he asked once again for explicit
confirmation that the verbal agreement made
with him for payment to be made in case of
success, to him and a group represented by
him, in the amount of US$3 million (about
R21m)," the agreement reads, according to
the translation.
The Sowetan reported an unnamed source as
saying on Thursday, that apart from Shaik,
another 21 politically-connected South
Africans allegedly benefited from the German
bribe.
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