The long arm of the law has been slow to hold people responsible for allegedly looting the coffers of the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) over the past decade to account.
But the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), which says it is investigating dodgy lottery grants worth more than R2 billion, has been far more proactive. Its investigations have led to the freezing of luxury houses, farms, cars and other assets bought with misappropriated lottery funding intended for good causes.
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