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Spain’s state-owned lottery is under fire after a 15-year-old was revealed as the winner of a €200k jackpot. This weekend, Spanish media revealed that Cosmin Rotariu, a 15-year-old Barcelona student, held a winning €200k ticket in the latest El Niño lottery draw. The lucky kid helpfully informed reporters that he purchased the...
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DE: 05 de setembro de 2018 A: 07 de setembro de 2018 LOCAL: Sana Lisboa Hotel LISBOA | PORTUGAL … … … COMPROMETIDA, INTELIGENTE, RESPONSÁVEL! As lotarias estão fortemente empenhadas em transmitir as políticas de JR (Jogo Responsável) e RSC (Responsabilidade Social Corporativa). A RSC tornou-se obrigatória e as...
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The government’s Gambling Commission should pressure Camelot to change the way it runs the national lottery to ensure more money goes to good causes amid rising profits for the company, a cross-party committee of MPs has said. The current lottery licence, which runs until 2023, is overly long and too inflexible,...
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A Gibraltar-based company that allows Australians to bet on overseas lottery results should “simply take their bat and ball and go home”, the anti-gambling advocate Tim Costello has said. Lottoland, which runs synthetic lotteries allowing punters to place wagers on the outcome of overseas results, is seeking to expand...
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The National Lottery’s blue “Millionaire 7s” scratchcard game, which costs £5 a go, boasts of “six top prizes of £1m”. But if you go and buy one today, the shopkeeper probably won’t tell you that all six £1m jackpots have already been snapped up. Meanwhile, the Camelot-owned lottery’s £250,000...
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The Co-op is taking on the National Lottery with the launch of its own scratchcards, which will give as much as four times to good causes. The member-owned business says a minimum of 20% from the sale of each of its own-brand cards will go to “local good causes”....
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Lottoland has filed an application to have its own lottery in several German federal states in order to challenge the German lottery monopoly and become the first private lottery operator of a major lottery in the country. The company’s new German lottery system will resembles that of the German...
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Nos três últimos meses do ano passado, as operadoras do território e outras empresas do sector das lotarias e dos jogos de aposta contrataram 662 trabalhadores, um aumento de 76,1 por cento face a 2015. Ainda assim, a indústria do jogo encerrou 2016 com menos funcionários do que os...
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A betting loophole that allows gambling websites to offer cut-price bets on the EuroMillions lottery draw is intended to be closed by the government as it takes “money away from good causes”. Although the Gambling Act prohibits betting on National Lottery games, websites get around the law by offering...
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The National Lottery operator, Camelot, is “considering its options” after the man who allegedly claimed a £2.5m prize by fraudulent means was named in the media as a convicted rapist. The Gambling Commission said on Thursday that it had fined Camelot£3mfor paying out the £2.5m prize in 2009 on a ticket that...
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Labour has demanded an explanation from the government about the circumstances that led to National Lottery operator Camelot receiving a £3m penalty for paying out on a damaged ticket in 2009. The Gambling Commission said the situation only came to light last year and that the whole penalty will be given to good...
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A regulamentação das apostas desportivas e o jogo responsável foram alguns dos temas abordados no seminário “Apostas Desportivas”, organizado pelos Jogos Santa Casa. … “Este seminário é para nós um momento em que reafirmamos o nosso compromisso com o jogo responsável”, anunciou o vice-provedor da Misericórdia de Lisboa, Edmundo...
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The proposed amendments to Finland’s Lotteries Act were notified to the EC on May 31st and are subject to a standstill period ending September 1st. Under the current Lotteries Act, gambling in Finland is only authorised through the state-controlled operators Fintoto Oy, Raha-automaattiyhdistys (RAY) and Veikkaus. The amendments would transfer this...
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A lottery security director who was convicted of fixing a $16.5m lottery jackpot also allegedly rigged several other lottery random-number generators to be able to predict the winning numbers, according to Iowa investigators. For several years, Eddie Tipton, the former security director of the US Multi-State Lottery Association, installed...
Spain’s state-owned lottery is under fire after a 15-year-old was revealed as the winner of a €200k jackpot. This weekend, Spanish media revealed that Cosmin Rotariu, a 15-year-old Barcelona student, held a winning €200k ticket in the latest El Niño lottery draw. The lucky kid helpfully informed reporters that he purchased the...
DE: 05 de setembro de 2018 A: 07 de setembro de 2018 LOCAL: Sana Lisboa Hotel LISBOA | PORTUGAL … … … COMPROMETIDA, INTELIGENTE, RESPONSÁVEL! As lotarias estão fortemente empenhadas em transmitir as políticas de JR (Jogo Responsável) e RSC (Responsabilidade Social Corporativa). A RSC tornou-se obrigatória e as...
The government’s Gambling Commission should pressure Camelot to change the way it runs the national lottery to ensure more money goes to good causes amid rising profits for the company, a cross-party committee of MPs has said. The current lottery licence, which runs until 2023, is overly long and too inflexible,...
A Gibraltar-based company that allows Australians to bet on overseas lottery results should “simply take their bat and ball and go home”, the anti-gambling advocate Tim Costello has said. Lottoland, which runs synthetic lotteries allowing punters to place wagers on the outcome of overseas results, is seeking to expand...
The National Lottery’s blue “Millionaire 7s” scratchcard game, which costs £5 a go, boasts of “six top prizes of £1m”. But if you go and buy one today, the shopkeeper probably won’t tell you that all six £1m jackpots have already been snapped up. Meanwhile, the Camelot-owned lottery’s £250,000...
The Co-op is taking on the National Lottery with the launch of its own scratchcards, which will give as much as four times to good causes. The member-owned business says a minimum of 20% from the sale of each of its own-brand cards will go to “local good causes”....
Lottoland has filed an application to have its own lottery in several German federal states in order to challenge the German lottery monopoly and become the first private lottery operator of a major lottery in the country. The company’s new German lottery system will resembles that of the German...
Nos três últimos meses do ano passado, as operadoras do território e outras empresas do sector das lotarias e dos jogos de aposta contrataram 662 trabalhadores, um aumento de 76,1 por cento face a 2015. Ainda assim, a indústria do jogo encerrou 2016 com menos funcionários do que os...
A betting loophole that allows gambling websites to offer cut-price bets on the EuroMillions lottery draw is intended to be closed by the government as it takes “money away from good causes”. Although the Gambling Act prohibits betting on National Lottery games, websites get around the law by offering...
The National Lottery operator, Camelot, is “considering its options” after the man who allegedly claimed a £2.5m prize by fraudulent means was named in the media as a convicted rapist. The Gambling Commission said on Thursday that it had fined Camelot£3mfor paying out the £2.5m prize in 2009 on a ticket that...
Labour has demanded an explanation from the government about the circumstances that led to National Lottery operator Camelot receiving a £3m penalty for paying out on a damaged ticket in 2009. The Gambling Commission said the situation only came to light last year and that the whole penalty will be given to good...
A regulamentação das apostas desportivas e o jogo responsável foram alguns dos temas abordados no seminário “Apostas Desportivas”, organizado pelos Jogos Santa Casa. … “Este seminário é para nós um momento em que reafirmamos o nosso compromisso com o jogo responsável”, anunciou o vice-provedor da Misericórdia de Lisboa, Edmundo...
The proposed amendments to Finland’s Lotteries Act were notified to the EC on May 31st and are subject to a standstill period ending September 1st. Under the current Lotteries Act, gambling in Finland is only authorised through the state-controlled operators Fintoto Oy, Raha-automaattiyhdistys (RAY) and Veikkaus. The amendments would transfer this...
A lottery security director who was convicted of fixing a $16.5m lottery jackpot also allegedly rigged several other lottery random-number generators to be able to predict the winning numbers, according to Iowa investigators. For several years, Eddie Tipton, the former security director of the US Multi-State Lottery Association, installed...
