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EWN reports that a Rolls Royce Phantom is among the many luxury vehicles and properties frozen for allegedly having been bought with stolen Lotto money.
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has obtained a preservation order to freeze assets worth R14 million belonging to former senior employees of the National Lotteries Commission (NLC). This stems from an investigation by the SIU that found corruption at the NLC amounting to approximately R334 million. The SIU uncovered that senior Lotto officials were enriching themselves, their friends and family members through grant money that was earmarked to assist poor communities. The modus operandi of the Lotto officials was to apply for grant funding using non-profit organisations they had ties to. Little of the money went into the projects, with officials using most of it to purchase fixed properties and luxury vehicles. Gauteng National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Lumka Mahanjana pointed out that the SIU and the Asset Forfeiture Unit had previously obtained two preservation orders for 14 immovable properties worth R67 million in the same case. Mahanjana said the assets would be preserved pending an application for a forfeiture order, in terms of which the State would be looking to have them surrendered as proceeds of crime.
- Read the original of the report in the above regard by Thabiso Goba at EWN
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