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Article: Scottish Screen in grants storm
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- June 12, 2001
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SCOTTISH Screen has ploughed more than GBP 1.5 million of lottery
cash into films made by its own committee members and their
relatives.
Six film-makers with close links to Scottish Screen have had
their productions financed by lottery cash, The Scotsman can reveal.
The beleaguered quango, criticised for using public money to back
a string of box office flops, yesterday insisted it had been
"scrupulously thorough" to prevent any conflicts of interest when
handing out the grants.
But details in its own annual report, to be published next month,
will show how it has left itself open to charges that it is
operating a culture of cronyism.
Scottish Screen took over the administration of a GBP ...