Only two out of 15 forensic reports into fraud and corruption commissioned by the previous board of the National Lotteries Commission were ever fully implemented, Parliament has been told.
When a new board and executive were appointed, a search for the investigative reports, which had cost millions of rands, was initiated. NLC chief auditor executive Vincent Smith and his team have built a repository of all the forensic investigations and all their recommendations, which were now being “tracked”, Scholtz told MPs.
Contract management will also be investigated as part of an audit of the NLC’s supply chain management. A document leaked to GroundUp in 2018 blew the whistle on the high cost of the system, which had already cost R90-million and had been due to go live in 2017 but was still under development. An NLC source with detailed knowledge of the costs, who asked to remain anonymous, confirmed details in the leaked document last year and told GroundUp that the “new” system had cost R200-million “so far”, but still had problems.
Portfolio committee member Darren Bergman said it had come to his attention that there was only one prosecutor at the National Prosecuting Authority assigned to NLC cases.
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