Kashaf Ali Khan, 44, used his fake winnings on a house in Solihull, Birmingham, after claiming he had ‘won’ the money. He had nearly £500,000 removed from his bank accounts after a court order was put in place.

The money launderer told police he had paid for his extravagant £413,000 home by winning the lottery more than 100 times. The jobless gambler claimed he bought his luxurious home after 123 wins on the Pakistani Lottery. Additionally, he used his father’s name to buy the tickets. This amounts to winning the lottery 40 weeks in a row.

In fact, Khan used criminal monies to buy a house on Prospect Lane in Solihull, Birmingham. Money had been transferred into Khan’s father’s UK bank account from Dubai. He had used black-market prize bond dealers in Pakistan. They sell on their winning tickets at inflated prices to crooks like Khan, who need to clean their dirty money with prize money issued in their name.

Furthermore, Khan used another £175,000 of criminal monies to pay off previous proceeds of crime order. That order had been made after Khan was convicted previously of money laundering. He paid off the order with the illegal funds while serving a suspended sentence.

What were the consequences?

The NCA seized £472,740 from Khan under the Proceeds of Crime Act and the order was fulfilled on 20 August 2019 after he sold off his home. Khan admitted money laundering by using criminal money to buy the house and a further count of money laundering by using the £175,000 to pay off the court order.

Consequently, he was jailed for 22 months at Birmingham Crown Court in August 2018.

The NCA’s investigating officer Phil Houghton said…

“Kashaf Ali Khan wrongfully thought he could get away with funding his lifestyle by criminal means.

“Offenders like Khan play an enabling role for other criminals to move and clean the proceeds of crime.

“They will be relentlessly pursued by the NCA.”

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Lesley Thomas, 49, didn’t tell the authorities about her windfall and kept claiming housing benefit and employment and support allowance as before. The total overpayment was more than £17,988, Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday.

Prosecutor Monique McKevitt said: ‘[Ms Thomas] received a sum of £300,000 as a lottery win from Camelot UK. ‘Ms Thomas was interviewed on March 15 last year. She admitted that she had claimed the fraudulent funds. The payment has been paid back in full.’

Thomas pleaded guilty to failing to inform Merthyr Tydfil council of her change of circumstances relating to the housing benefit she was receiving between April 2015 and November 2015. She also pleaded guilty to failing to inform the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) about her change of circumstances.

A probation report said Ms Thomas has shown ‘deep remorse for her actions’.

The court was also told Ms. Thomas, of Nantygwenith Street, Merthyr Tydfil, lives alone with no children or partner. She was said to have numerous health complaints that require the ongoing support of carers on a daily basis, especially to help her carry out daily chores.

Kim Treloar, mitigating, said: ‘This case goes back some years now.’ Discussing the lottery win she added: ‘She gave some money to her niece to assist her.

She gave some money to her relatives. ‘Sources say she suffered from depression, anxiety, and many physical issues. She has fully accepted that she’s done wrong.’

Bench chair Mary Morris said the magistrates ‘took a long time’ to consider the sentence they would impose. Furthermore, they handed Thomas a 26-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months.

She was also ordered to pay £200 in costs and was handed a 12-week tagged curfew. Mrs. Morris said: ‘[The offense] was over a long period of time and we did find that it was a deliberate act.’

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Jun-Chul Chung, 68, and his daughter Kathleen Chung, 36, were sentenced to seven and four years in prison.

Her brother, Kenneth Chung, who ran the convenience store in a Toronto suburb where his father worked, was given a 10-month sentence.

The real ticket winner eventually got his C$12.5m earnings – plus interest.

“I’m just really happy,” winner Daniel Campbell said in 2011, when the winnings were restored.

He split the jackpot with six of his colleagues who were part of a lottery pool.

“It’s a big deal for myself and my family and I can maybe help them out and take care of them. I’m a little overwhelmed; a lot overwhelmed.”

Justice Douglas Gray ordered the father and daughter to each pay C$2.3m. This is the amount remaining on the winning ticket after approximately C$8m of assets were seized by the courts.

Moreover, the court found the fraudsters had used the winnings to buy mansions and luxury cars.

What happened?

Mr Campbell got the ticket in 2003 from Variety Plus in Burlington, Ontario. This was after a previously purchased ticket won him five “free plays”.

Kenneth Chung managed the store, but it was his father Jun-Chul Chung who validated the five free plays.

Upon discovering that one of them was the winner, Jun-Chul stole it and returned the four losing tickets to Mr. Campbell.

Then his daughter Kathleen Chung cashed the ticket in at the prize center.

An investigator for the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, which runs the province’s lottery, discovered her brother owned the Variety Plus where the ticket was validated. But this took place months later!

But the OLG paid the ticket out to Chung anyway.

The “shocking” fraud was highlighted in a 2007 government report on “suspicious wins” in the provincial-run lottery. The report called out the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation for not doing enough to stop fraud perpetrated by lottery ticket sellers.

Furthermore, the government estimates lottery retailers, employees and their families have taken home $198m in prizes over the past 13 years.

“They had a real policy of coddling up with retailers and retailers exploited that, and many were wily and got away with that,” former Ontario’s ombudsman Andre Marin told CBC News.

The gaming corporation has since cracked down on retailer fraud and police have charged a number of winners.

Moral of the story, don’t steal lottery tickets! They won’t be valid!

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‘I Regret It’

Eddie Tipton, a former employee of the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) in Clive, wrote the code to allow him to predict the randomly drawn numbers of multimillion-dollar jackpots in as many as 17 states and claim the cash prizes.

The code remained active and undetected for almost a decade before Iowa officials in 2015 discovered Tipton’s scheme. It allowed Tipton and his accomplices to defraud the system on specific days each year, which investigators initially believed were Nov. 23 and Dec. 29.

But an independent security audit revealed at least one more date was written into Tipton’s code for picking the winning numbers: May 27.

Tipton was sentenced up to 25 years in prison for rigging lotteries in Iowa, Colorado, Wisconsin, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Prosecuted did not take place for rigging drawings on any May 27 dates.

He told investigators that they had identified all the fraudulent wins associated with his scheme.

Helping Out Family

His brother, Tommy Tipton, told investigators something different. Furthermore, Tommy acknowledged being part of Eddy’s $4.5 million rigged jackpot win in Colorado, 2005. Eddie gave him numbers for at least two other drawings that he tried to use to win jackpots. But he didn’t win.

The additional May 27 window means there are probably more potential fraud cases.

The Multi-State Lottery hired SeNet in 2015 to help perform a security evaluation following Tipton’s arrest.

Owned and operated by its 36 member lotteries, MUSL is a non-profit, government-benefit association headquartered in Clive.

It provides security, information technology and draw services to its members.

MUSL is refusing to make SeNet’s evaluation available in a civil case in which Larry Dawson of Webster City, Iowa, contends that his jackpot was smaller than it should have been as a result of Tipton’s fraudulent win.

In a separate case, Dale Culler is additionally seeking a class-action lawsuit. This is on behalf of all players cheated out of lottery wins by Tipton’s manipulated drawings.

Teitelman made the comments about the newly discovered third rigged date. This was during a Def Con 25 Hacker conference called “Backdooring the Lottery and Other Security Tales from Gaming.” Dawson’s lawyer cited his presentation last week.

“This is just known cases of fraud,” Teitelman said. “There are probably more, especially since we found a third date in the code itself.”

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Lottery Con-Men At Work

Daniel Archer, 29, and Matthew Archer, 28, each pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Bowling Green to 20 counts of wire fraud. The siblings supposedly contacted victims through emails and phone calls to pretend they had won a large sum of money in a lottery.

“Victims were told in emails and telephone calls that they had to pay taxes, fees and other amounts up front before they could receive their lottery winnings,” Assistant U.S. Attorney David Weiser said. “In reality, there were no lottery winnings.”

The two men accepted plea agreements in which they will pay $728,442.18 in restitution. Each count of wire fraud carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The plea agreements each man reached will recommend a lesser sentence.

Federal court records identified six people by their initials who gave money to the Archers and a third person who was not charged with a crime in the case.

The siblings came to the attention of local law enforcement in 2016 when a woman came to Kentucky State Police Post 3 in Bowling Green on June 2, 2016, to file a report that her stepmother was being victimized in a financial scheme.

According to Warren County circuit clerk records, the woman overheard her stepmother have a phone conversation with someone regarding arranging some type of payment. She was asked about the conversation and told her stepdaughter a man named “Ralph Johnson” had phoned her and said she had won $2.5 million and a car through a Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes.

The stepmother had been making tax payments totaling more than $164,000. This was in anticipation of receiving the winnings, according to court records.

Catching The Thieves

While the women were meeting with KSP investigators, the man who claimed to be Ralph Johnson called the stepmother’s phone. He requested another payment of $100,000. The stepmother agreed to obtain half the money for the payment immediately. The other half was arranged for Johnson to pick up the money at her residence at a later date.

On the appointed date, the man, later identified as Matthew Archer, arrived at the house and was arrested by KSP.

Daniel Archer was arrested in July 2016 after an investigation determined he was involved in the scheme, court records show.

Furthermore, the siblings were charged initially with crimes in state court. A federal grand jury returned wire fraud indictments against both men last year.

U.S. District Judge Greg Stivers will sentence both men April 24.

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