If you
can get it...Police have charged a Toronto convenience store owner with fraud in connection with a $5.7-million “insider” lottery prize win.
Hafiz Zulqarnain Malik, 60, of Mississauga, Ont., is charged with two counts of fraud over $5,000 and one count of theft over $5,000.
He was released on $60,000 bail after a court appearance Wednesday, then refused comment on the case.
It looks like this sort of thing is a lot more common than
you might think.
Lotteries across Canada have been under scrutiny ever since a scathing ombudsman’s report blasted the OLG for not cracking down on retailers who collected “tens of millions” of dollars in jackpots between 1999 and 2006.
