The Scorpions investigative unit has confirmed that it has information linking President Thabo Mbeki to a French defence company implicated in arms-deal corruption, but says it has no evidence of wrongdoing on his part. Mbeki, who was deputy president at the time, allegedly met executives of Thomson-CSF in Paris in 1998. The company, now known as Thales, was bidding for a stake in the multibillion-rand arms deal.