and the majority of the money was defrauded from the unemployment programs and a lot of that was stolen by foreign criminal groups and sent overseas. so it is gone forever. our new reporting as you said is focusing on the paycheck protection laws. most which have were turned in to grants. fraudsters created fake companies with ghost employees to steal millions. and made of that money can be recovered and some people are being prosecuted. but the reality it is that most of the money is probably spent and gone. the government is of course seizing and auctioning afternoon those lambeaus and ferraris bought, but they are only prosecuting a tiny fraction of the wrong doughs. experts believe that there were millions of instances of fraud but the justice department has so far secured just 178 convictions they tell us. part of this is that there was it seemed an you are gebts need. and i know that your reporting bears it out.
The Passenger Rail Agency of SA is looking to open criminal cases regarding the 3,000 "ghost employees" it has uncovered in its system, parliament heard on Tuesday.