A potential new law could restrict Crown funds reaching gang-linked organisations.

Takanini National MP Rima Nakhle's proposed amendment to the Public Finance Bill has been pulled from the biscuit tin. 

It would prohibit agencies from providing money to organisations run, administered or associated with gangs. 

Nakhle says the last Government gave $2.75 million to gangs via Kainga Ora.  

"There's no doubt that there's people that choose to change their lives, but we're not going to accept that public money goes to gangs, basically, when they're the ones selling the drugs. So how do they become the saviours?"

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