Canada’s Ken took some much-deserved time off after the promotional roll-out of “Barbie” to get some R&R with his wife, Eva Mendes, and their two daughters, Esmeralda Amada, 8 and Amada Lee, 7.
30.07.2023 - 14:35 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A $12.5 million lottery ticket stolen by a father and daughter from a relative’s shop sparked a change in the game’s rules.
Jun-Chul Chung and daughter Kathleen took part in a scam to steal the lottery jackpot - worth $12.5m - from his brother Kenneth’s shop, Variety Plus, in Burlington, Canada.
The dad, 71, from Toronto, was later sentenced to seven years while his daughter, 39, was jailed for four.
The pair were also fined $3.5m for taking a winning ticket and claim it as their own, reports the Daily Mirror.
Kenneth, who was running the convenience store at the time, had left his dad in charge of validating the lottery tickets.
His father realised he was in possession of a winning ticket presented by Daniel Campbell. Jun-Chul Chung stole it and gave Daniel some losing tickets instead.
Kathleen took the jackpot ticket to the prize centre to cash it in. But months later, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation discovered the winner was related to the store owner.
Despite their suspicions, they still handed over the $12.5m jackpot to them.
The ‘win’ was later scrutinised in a report published by the Canadian Broadcasting Company. The lottery was branded “provincial”, in the report, and officials took another look at the suspect win after realising shops were exploiting winning tickets.
Former Ontario investigator Andre Marin told CBS News: “They had a real policy of coddling up with retailers and retailers exploited that, and many were wily and got away with that.”
A total of 355 wins in 2008 were investigated by Canadian police who filed 14 charges. Four were found guilty of unfair tactics.
It led to the change of the lottery rules in Canada where it was made illegal to purchase tickets from a family member’s store.
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Canada’s Ken took some much-deserved time off after the promotional roll-out of “Barbie” to get some R&R with his wife, Eva Mendes, and their two daughters, Esmeralda Amada, 8 and Amada Lee, 7.
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