Canada's province of British Columbia has not stopped its lottery argument from making headlines in the wake of Kim Carter's – the province's ombudsman – critique that the B.C. Lottery Corporation which is government owned, did not have satisfactory regulations in order to make sure that correct prize sums to the actual winning ticket owners receive their payment. 

CBS News reports that the latest happenings are that John Les, the Solicitor General, exposed that an independent audit of the two billion dollars concern had been demanded by him. Les added in the audit's announcement, that Carter's report brings to question the vulnerability of the system to deception.

Les stated that it's unbelievable that the lottery company had no knowledge that the public was suffering from embezzlement.

The high proportion of wins assigned to the lottery ticket retailers is the center of the dispute. Regarding the B.C. predicament, her report, according to Carter, claimed that a number of retailers seemed to have wins more than usual, and pocketing multiple wins by 21 B.C. Lottery Corporation retailers or employees. More than three hundred thousand dollars, according to her, went five times in eleven years to one retailer.   

Toronto University's Ontario's academics stated in the previous year their worry that wins of ticket retailers in the province lottery in the wake of a very broad statistic analysis. 

Vic Poleschuk, the CEO and John McLernon the chairman, who are the two executive heads of the BC Lottery Corporation have elucidated that in the wake of the ombudsman's report they will not resign. Both men expressed sorrow over the findings of the ombudsman, and under their tenure, they claim, no proof exists that any prize was awarded in a retailer embezzlement. In order to resolve the problems, they stated that they'll accept all responsibility.

Posted on: June 9, 2007

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