ID PRESIDENT PATRICIA DE LILLE ON NEW UK ARMS DEAL PROBE

ID President Patricia de Lille has welcomed news that Britain's auditing watchdog, the Accountancy and Actuarial Discipline Board (AADB) is to investigate KPMG, which advised BAE Systems on its dealings in the South African Arms Deal (see Sunday Times report).

‘We welcome this investigation because it will prove the point that Hawks boss Anwa Dramat misled the country by saying that there is not enough evidence to proceed with the investigation,' Ms De Lille says.

‘The schedule of payments of bribes to South Africans has already been available to the Scorpions - that is one of the reasons why the Scorpions were closed down and the Hawks established, so the Hawks could hammer the final nail in the coffin of the South African arm of the investigation.

‘The ANC Government and the ANC must learn that you will never be able to hide from the truth, because the truth will always survive because it is much stronger than lies,' says De Lille.

Statement issued by Patricia de Lille, leader of the Independent Democrats, November 7 2010

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