Author: Raymond Joseph

The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) instructed service providers to pay third parties it had appointed, thereby concealing the source of the money. The NLC ran a parallel procurement process that bypassed its official supply chain management system. Millions of rands are involved. Celebrities were paid huge fees as speakers and panellists at NLC “ethics events”. The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) used service providers to pay millions to third-party suppliers it appointed. This effectively bypassed its supply management system and concealed that it was the source of the funds, a GroundUp investigation has found. This occurred at a time when the…