For 128 days in 2013, it was like Hassan Karim Choudhry kept winning the lottery. Between May 2013 and Sept. 2013, the operator of two Mac's convenience stores in Edmonton lined his own pockets by paying out non-existent lottery tickets to himself. In Edmonton provincial court on Tuesday, Choudhry pleaded guilty to fraud over five thousand dollars, admitting to essentially stealing $257,779 from Mac's. He was sentenced to one year in jail and ordered by provincial court judge Larry Anderson to make full restitution to Mac's. Mac's fired Choudhry and reported the fraud to police, but it took Economic Crimes investigators nearly four years to charge him.

Source: CBC News September 12, 2018 00:56 UTC