Lottery Employees Knew Where Winning Tickets Would Be Sold in Alleged $27M Scam

Italian authorities have frozen more than $28 million in assets belonging to a group of former lottery employees accused of using privileged computer access to steer $27 million in scratch-off jackpots into the hands of relatives and friends. The scheme involved four employees and two former employees of Lottomatica, the company then operating Italy’s state-backed Gratta e Vinci scratch-off lottery, secretly tracing four winning tickets before they were sold. Between 2015 and 2019, the employees allegedly used legitimate login credentials to access company servers, identifying two tickets carrying €7 million ($7.8 million) jackpots and two worth €5 million ($5.6 million)…