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September 15, 2007, 19:45
The Presidency says a report in the Saturday Star that millions of rands have been pumped into the now banned Aids drug Virodene is based on innuendo.
Presidential spokesperson Mukoni Ratshitanga says the story is devoid of concrete facts and tantamount to an attempt to discredit policy positions taken by government. He was responding to a report that millions flowed from the Union Buildings to Virodene developers, Olga and Zigi Visser, in 2000 and early 2001.
Ratshitanga says a quote attributed to him that there was contact between President Thabo Mbeki and researcher Olga Visser is false. Mbeki has slammed a newspaper report suggesting that he paid R40 million to drug researcher Virodene.
The newspaper report links Mbeki to what it calls "a toxic cure" in the research of the now banned Virodene Aids drug.
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