Installing a central monitoring system in all gambling pay-out machines in South Africa may be put on hold due to questions of legality on the issuance of the multi-billion rand contract.

Business Day reported that the R2.8 billion (US$212 million) contract to be issued by South Africa’s National Gambling Board (NGB) for the controversial national central electronic monitoring system has been put under intense legal scrutiny.

Many contend that the NGB may be able to tender government contracts with the approval or blessing of the whole board or CEO. The NGB has not had a board or CEO since 2014.

It would be recalled that Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies dissolved the NGB board due to allegations of corruption involving the monitoring system.