Auditors find 21 unreported wins by BC lottery retailers but no fraud

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time*treat — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:21:19 GMT

Maybe they are friends with the Chinese guy in the other story.

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RJOh — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:56:07 GMT

The retailers have an advantage over their customers if they are winning a higher percent of the prizes and they are not buying a higher percent of the tickets they sell. It may not be fraud legally but they know something that their customers don't and apparently neither does the auditors.

Auditors find 21 unreported wins by BC lottery retailers but no fraud

Lottery Post — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:17:00 GMT

Auditors studying the integrity of B.C.'s public lottery system found 21 previously unreported lottery wins of $10,000 or more by retailers who sell tickets to the public, says an independent report released Thursday.

B.C. Solicitor General John Les, who ordered an independent probe of the lottery system last May, said the discovery did not point to fraud within the Crown-owned lottery corporation that raked in $2.4 billion in revenues in the 2007 fiscal year.

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