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Critics renew call for lottery inquiryNews Story
Critics say a public inquiry into the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. is long overdue after police revealed they had no evidence to charge a former retailer who won 167 prizes worth $1.2 million over a nine-year period. There is a stink there, New Democrat justice critic Peter Kormos said yesterday, insisting a forensic audit of past winners first promised by lottery officials June 3 and again this week is not enough. It's not about the one retailer. It's about what has been going on
Jul 31, 2008, 9:35 pm - Lottery News

Ottawa barber, client share $32M lottery winNews Story
Two Ottawa men are splitting a $32 million lottery jackpot after decades of buying tickets together. It hasn't sunk in yet, one of the winners, Samir Haddad, said Thursday. Today, signing some papers, my hands were shaking. When I look at all the zeroes... Haddad, 57, and his friend and barber Mike Detorre, 71, were back in Ottawa after taking four limousines and 35 relatives with them to Toronto to pick up their Lotto 6-49 winnings the day before. Haddad, who installs hardwood floo
Jul 7, 2008, 12:46 pm - Lottery News

Ontario Lottery forced to publicize internal probe into 'insider win'News Story
The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. has violated the public trust and can't justify hiding documents about its internal probe into a $21.5 million win by a Cambridge convenience store owner, the province's privacy commission has ruled. The lottery corporation has until May 9 to release documents related to the probe under a Freedom of Information request filed and appealed by the CBC, assistant commissioner Brian Beamish ruled Friday. The public must remain vigilant. This information is
Apr 8, 2008, 7:26 am - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery requires winners to sign ticketsNews Story
On the heels of a similar announcement from the Ontario Lottery, the Iowa Lottery has imposed a new rule aimed at reducing the possibility of retailer fraud. Starting March 15, 2008, Iowa retailers will only be able to check and cash lottery tickets if they have first been signed by the ticketholder. The lottery also reinforced that players are responsible for the accuracy of their tickets before leaving the store, and for determining if their ticket is a winner. Under current rules, re
Mar 10, 2008, 10:24 am - Lottery News

Ontario store employee charged with stealing lottery prizesNews Story
New prize redemption rules aimed at reducing theft A former convenience store employee in North Bay, Ontario, is facing theft and fraud charges for allegedly redeeming two customers' scratch-and-win lottery tickets. Sgt. Chris Williams of the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario's Investigation and Support Bureau says these are the first such charges the unit has laid since its inception Jan. 1. The unit, comprised of provincial police officers, investigates claims of insider lotter
Feb 27, 2008, 10:24 am - Lottery News

Winners of $14.5M lottery jackpot shun spotlightNews Story
Norfolk County's newest multi-millionaires are tough to find. John and Mary Winkworth, a middle-aged couple from Glen Meyer, won more than $14.5 million in Saturday's Lotto 6/49 draw. The two were unavailable for comment Tuesday, fuelling speculation they are already jet-setting around the world or living it up in a hotel suite in Toronto. That's what I'd be doing, said Larry Neville of Neville Gas and Variety in Langton. If I won millions, you'd know it. Mary Neville suspects they
Feb 27, 2008, 9:27 am - Lottery News

Killer of lottery winner convictedNews Story
Wife poisoned over squandered jackpot A Toronto-area doctor was convicted of poisoning his 66-year-old wife for squandering $5 million she won in a Canadian lottery, Toronto media reported. Sentencing was set for April 25 for gynecologist Joseph Roncaioli, 72, for the 2003 poisoning death of his 66-year-old wife, Ibi in July 2003, The Toronto Star reported Monday. The woman shared a $10 million jackpot with her hairdresser in 1991 and prosecutors told a jury northeast of Toronto in Newm
Feb 18, 2008, 2:29 pm - Lottery News

Ontario Lottery adds signature requirement for claiming prizesNews Story
Starting this week, retailers are not allowed to validate Ontario lottery tickets unless customers sign them on the front. Players are also asked to sign the back of Instant Win tickets until a new signature box is added to the front in the coming months. The signature requirement is the second new measure added by the Ontario Lottery Corp. in as many weeks to improve security. New musical chimes and voice alerts took effect Jan. 22 at all lottery terminals to help inform players of the
Jan 30, 2008, 8:42 am - Lottery News

Ontario lottery to investigate 'suspicious' $24.5M winNews Story
The $24.5 million Lotto nbsp;6/49 win by workers at Powco Steel has been classified as a suspicious win by Ontario gaming officials after another potential winner came forward. On Thursday, 27 employees of the Barrie company, which manufactures light stands and poles, spent the day at the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. in Toronto hoping to collect their prize. But they left empty-handed so officials could conduct the standard checks. Yesterday, another claim was made for the big prize.
Jan 19, 2008, 10:51 pm - Lottery News

Stolen lottery money returned to real winnersNews Story
Four school board employees, allegedly cheated out of their winning lottery ticket by a retailer who claimed the prize money as his own, received a check for $5.7 million plus interest Wednesday from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation. The check came as Ontario Provincial Police announced they had charged Hafiz Malik, a 60-year-old former convenience store owner with theft and fraud following an investigation into insider wins at the OLG. Police allege Malik, who was release
Dec 21, 2007, 12:06 pm - Lottery News