Deputy President’s Finances Probed
From Times Wire Reports
South African investigators said they had begun an inquiry into Deputy President Jacob Zuma’s financial interests, but an aide accused political rivals in the ruling African National Congress of a smear campaign.
The inquiry by the elite Scorpions unit is part of a wider investigation into allegations of corruption in a multibillion-dollar arms deal.
Zuma aides linked the inquiry to a power struggle ahead of 2004 presidential elections.
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