South African police arrest eight in influence-peddling probe

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's elite Hawks police unit has arrested eight people so far in its investigations into high-level influence-peddling centering around the Indian-born Gupta family, wealthy friends of ousted president Jacob Zuma, a statement said. Two other suspects were still at large in South Africa, it said, while another three - two of whom were described as "of Indian nativity" - were outside the country. Police were asking for assistance in executing the arrest warrants, it added. Zuma and the three Gupta brothers have denied any wrongdoing. (Reporting by Ed Cropley; Editing by James Macharia)