Quote from forex-forex:
Lotto winnings in Canada are 100% tax free. I think the 6/49 is up to $26 million or $36 million now.
That is, if the crooked dealer doesn't take it first!!
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OLG didn't investigate insider win
The National Post, Windsor Star
Published: Friday, December 21, 2007
The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation awarded a $5.75-million jackpot to a Toronto lottery retailer in February, 2005 without any formal "insider win" investigation to verify he was the actual owner of the ticket.
Hafiz Malik was interviewed by a "winners associate" at the lottery corporation before the jackpot was approved and its internal security staff were not involved, according to internal documents obtained by the National Post.
In fact, the lottery corporation decided four months before Mr. Malik was awarded his jackpot that security staff would no longer conduct insider win investigations.
Mr. Malik, 60, is now facing theft-, fraud- and proceeds of crime-related charges after he was charged this week by the Ontario Provincial Police and accused of stealing the winning ticket when one member of a group of four regular lottery customers had it validated at his store in west end Toronto in June 2004. Police have seized two of his cars and put restrictions on what he can do with his $1-million home in Mississauga and his investment accounts
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Chief of Ontario lottery corporation dismissed
Last Updated: Friday, March 23, 2007 | 6:26 PM ET
CBC News
The head of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation was dismissed from the scandal-plagued organization on Friday, CBC News has learned.
CEO Duncan Brown was escorted out of the lottery corporation's offices in Toronto, two sources told the CBC, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Repeated calls to officials at the lottery corporation went unanswered Friday.
The dismissal follows allegations that several lottery clerks stole winning tickets from unsuspecting customers and cashed in millions of dollars in prizes themselves.
The allegations came to light in the fall, when CBC's The Fifth Estate told the story of Bob Edmonds, an 82-year-old Ontario man who sued the lottery corporation in 2005. Edmonds, from the town of Coboconk, alleges he won $250,000, but his prize was fraudulently claimed at his local corner store.