An attempt to get the arms deal inquiry reopened is to be made in Wednesday’s meeting of the standing committee on public accounts in Parliament.

New evidence of corruption in the arms deal is disclosed in documents used by the Scorpions to motivate for last week’s raids on premises countrywide.

The Scorpions unit launched massive raids on Wednesday in what appears to be a final bid to lance the festering sore of the arms deal.

The US government blacklisted four allies of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday, including Billy Rautenbach and John Bredenkamp.

A net of local and international investigations is drawing in on one of the most controversial and influential players in the South African arms deal.