Scorpions investigators met Durban businessman Schabir Shaik on Tuesday morning regarding his alleged involvement in a reported R500 000 bribe from a French arms firm.
Directorate of public prosecutions spokesperson Sipho Ngwema confirmed the elite investigating unit began their meeting with Shaik at 9am, and were still locked in talks shortly before 1pm.
He declined to say how long the questioning was expected to last.
Shaik is the personal financial adviser to Deputy President Jacob Zuma, who is alleged to have solicited a bribe from a company that benefited from South Africa’s multi-billion rand arms deal.
The deputy president himself has been asked to provide the Scorpions with answers, by Thursday this week, to a series of questions relating to his personal finances.
Shaik initially challenged the constitutionality of the Scorpions’s summons for him to submit to questioning, but the Durban High Court ruled against him.
Shaik was a director of Nkobi Holdings, African Defence Systems and Thomson CSF, all of which benefited from the arms deal. – Sapa