British police have arrested nine people over an alleged multi-million pound swindle of the National Lottery and children's charities.
The scam used bogus grant applications to defraud the charities and the Big Lottery Fund, which distributes 600 million pounds a year of National Lottery money to good causes, the reports said.
"We are investigating allegations relating to lottery grants and we have arrested nine people so far", a Scotland Yard spokesman said today.
