African and East European gangs are nabbing lottery millions in charity scams...

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African and East European gangs are nabbing lottery millions in charity scams...: "MILLIONS of pounds in UK lottery cash has been illegally claimed by foreign crooks, The People can reveal.

African and East European gangs have been making a flood of bogus applications for handouts because charity funds are seen as a soft touch.

The gangs attempt to rake in fortunes for their dodgy good causes in the hope that proper checks are not carried out.

The Big Lottery Fund, The Heritage Lottery Fund and the British Council, as well as dozens of other smaller organisations, have all identified bogus claims. At the same time, conmen working alone or in small groups have tried to rip off funding chiefs with their claims to be representing refugees or the sick.

Shameless swindler Kanyogota Sejojo, who came to the UK from Rwanda, scooped more than £18,000 for his Devon African Refugee Community Association in Plymouth and spent the money on himself. His windfall included £10,000 from the Big Lottery Fund and £2,750 from Children in Need.

After his arrest, Sejojo, 40, who by this time had moved to Balham, in south London, claimed he had invested £17,000 in football kit for asylum seekers but was unable to produce any evidence of it.

Jobless Sejojo was jailed for 19 months at Isleworth Crown Court in west London after pleading guilty to obtaining money by deception and false accounting."