Canadian lottery jackpot stolen
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October 1, 2010, Friday
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POLICE were searching for the rightful owners of a 12.5 million Canadian dollars (US$12.2 million) winning lottery ticket after charging a family in Ontario with stealing the jackpot.
Ontario Provincial Police Inspector Bill Price said a father, his son and daughter allegedly stole a Super 7 ticket from the Burlington, Ontario, retail store where they worked after a customer cashed in a winning ticket in 2003.
Police said the family had allegedly been stealing lottery tickets from customers and that the father gave the tickets to the daughter to claim the prizes.
"This particular investigation resulted from a larger overall investigative review of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation insider-win investigations," said Price.
Kathleen Chung, 29, her brother Kenneth Chung, 28, and the pair's 60-year-old father, Jun-Chul Chung, face several charges, including fraud.
After the suspects were charged, police said they seized their bank accounts and assets, including two homes and five luxury cars. They were to appear in an Ontario court yesterday.
Ontario gaming chairman Paul Godfrey said that because of cheating, someone was denied a prize.
"We want to find that person," he said. "We are committed to making sure the right prize gets in the right hands each and every time."
The Ontario government called in police three years ago after the province's ombudsman accused unscrupulous lottery-ticket retailers of collecting tens of millions of dollars in dishonest winnings. The government agency responsible for overseeing the corporation was also accused of letting them get away with it.
Ontario Provincial Police Inspector Bill Price said a father, his son and daughter allegedly stole a Super 7 ticket from the Burlington, Ontario, retail store where they worked after a customer cashed in a winning ticket in 2003.
Police said the family had allegedly been stealing lottery tickets from customers and that the father gave the tickets to the daughter to claim the prizes.
"This particular investigation resulted from a larger overall investigative review of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation insider-win investigations," said Price.
Kathleen Chung, 29, her brother Kenneth Chung, 28, and the pair's 60-year-old father, Jun-Chul Chung, face several charges, including fraud.
After the suspects were charged, police said they seized their bank accounts and assets, including two homes and five luxury cars. They were to appear in an Ontario court yesterday.
Ontario gaming chairman Paul Godfrey said that because of cheating, someone was denied a prize.
"We want to find that person," he said. "We are committed to making sure the right prize gets in the right hands each and every time."
The Ontario government called in police three years ago after the province's ombudsman accused unscrupulous lottery-ticket retailers of collecting tens of millions of dollars in dishonest winnings. The government agency responsible for overseeing the corporation was also accused of letting them get away with it.
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