Lottery spokesperson and former Head of Risk at the National Lotteries Commission are both named in a dossier handed to prosecutors.
Former Spokeperson Hangwani Mulaudzi and former Head of Risk at the National Lotteries Commission Marubini Ramatsekisa are both named in a dossier handed to prosecutors.
The investigation has been flagged as a priority by both the Hawks and the NPA, a source with knowledge of the investigation toldThe R3-million grant was given to the Hangwani Mulaudzi Foundation, whose directors include Mulaudzi and his wife. It was meant to develop a sports facility that included a soccer field, a netball court, change rooms and a borehole in Mukondeni village in Vhembe district, Limpopo. In 2020 the Foundation also received a R100,000 Covid-19 grant.
The NPA Specialised Commercial Crime Unit must now decide whether the matter is ready for prosecution. The complaint was lodged last year directly with Hawks head Lieutenant General Godfrey Lebeya by forensic consultant Paul O’Sullivan, who has been at loggerheads with Mulaudzi for years.visited Mukondeni two weeks ago, we found the sports facility vandalised and in a state of disrepair. Equipment, including a pump and several large water tanks, paid for with lottery funds have gone missing.
It was “reassuring … to learn that the wheels of justice are in motion to bring this long matter to its conclusion,” he said. “The SIU’s investigation into the affairs of the NLC found that Ramatsekisa was a key player and a willing facilitator of an elaborate scheme to defraud the Commission through