Hawks to probe Pippie Kruger's "gesiggie foundation"

Warning:

This article may contain graphic and/or adult content unsuitable for minors and sensitive readers.

Read the article

 The Hawks are probing claims that money has been misappropriated from burn victim, Pippie Kruger's foundation.

Hawks spokesperson, captain Paul Ramaloko says a woman had alleged that funds from the foundation had been used to finance Pippie's mother's lifestyle.

He says no formal criminal case had been opened.

Pippie sustained third-degree burns when firelighter gel, being used by her father on New Year's eve 2011, exploded in his hands and fell on her.

She was two-years-old at the time.

Last June, Pippie underwent pioneering reconstructive surgery in which surgeons grafter her cloned skin grown in a US laboratory in Boston onto her wounds.