Arms deal saga continues for Crawford-Browne, despite top court’s ruling
Arms deal critic Terry Crawford-Browne has not thrown in the towel following the Constitutional Court’s dismissal of his application for direct access to set aside the Seriti Commission report on the arms deal. "In anticipation that the Constitutional Court would attempt to ‘duck the political hot potato’ of the arms deal scandal‚ I have already engaged a highly reputed firm of foreign lawyers‚ who specialise in international corruption and fraud‚ and who are looking at alternative resolutions to this saga," Crawford-Browne said in a statement. The Seriti Commission report‚ which was released by President Jacob Zuma in March‚ found no evidence of wrongdoing or corruption in the procurement of military equipment for the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in 1999. This prompted Crawford-Browne to launch the Constitutional Court application in July. It was dismissed on Wednesday. In his statement, he said that while local remedies may have been exhausted by the Constitutional...
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