A spokesman for South African President Jacob Zuma is said to have received bribes from French weapons maker Thales, which is at the centre of an arms deal probe, the Sunday Times reported.
The then transport minister Mac Maharaj was paid 1.2 million French francs through an offshore bank account registered in his wife's name, before Thales was awarded a credit card licence contract, according to the newspaper's investigation.
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