Mississauga man charged in $5.7M lottery fraud

Mississauga man charged in $5.7M lottery fraud:

Ontario Provincial Police have arrested a Mississauga man for theft after he claimed a $5.7-million lottery ticket, part of a larger OPP investigation into “insider lottery wins.”
Hazif Zulqarnain Malik, 60 has been charged with one count of theft and one count of fraud.
Ontario store owners and their families claimed about $100 million in lottery wins between 1999 and 2006, including tens of millions of fraudulent claims ignored by the Ontario Lottery Corporation, the provincial ombudsman said in March.
In a scathing report, Andre Marin blasted the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp., which, he said was more fixated on profits than the integrity of its lottery games and has therefore turned a blind eye to allegations of corruption.

Story by Jordana Huber, CanWest News Service