Man sentenced in a case of Norwegian lottery fraud
A Norwegian man was sentenced to a childcare sentence after finding that he had fraudulently subjected to lottery financing requests.
The anonymous individual was underlined as part of a release from the game regulator of the Scandinavian nation, the Lottery and Foundations Authority.
Norwegian lottery fraud: man abuses the covid-19 support regime
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According to the game regulator and the Oslo district court, it was deemed abused of the charity fund to commit premeditated social security fraud.
The conviction includes the attempted fraud against a subsidiary regime which was created to support charity efforts during the Pandemic COVID-19.
This included the person requesting funding for remuneration for six different events that the regulator automatically treated. Although the financing branch of the Norway lottery has not treated payments, they have always been submitted for supposed compensation for 1.3 million Nok ($ 127,000).
The fraud was discovered by “manual treatment after a risk assessment”, explains the director of the department Marianne Skjeldestad Hove at the Lottery and Foundations Authority.
Sentenced by the Oslo court
“The support schemes developed during the pandemic were important in a crisis situation, but they were also vulnerable to fraud and exploitation by criminals,” said the main prosecutor Petter Nardeng.
It was also found that the individual was the beneficiary of other state advantages, while living in Türkiye, up to Nok 500,000 ($ 49,000).
In January 2025, the man was extradited from Bulgaria as part of a concentrated effort by the authorities and on the basis of a first report by the Lottery and Foundations Authority in 2022.
Nardeng concluded: “The case shows that the police are able to continue the criminals, even if the attacker left Norway and lived in another country.”
The decision rendered by the Oslo court gave the individual a sentence of one year and two months.
Since the initiation of support plans to help charitable organizations and small businesses to navigate the COVVI-19 pandemic and its impact, there have been 23,000 candidates.
“Very few have abused programs based on confidence for volunteering during the Corona pandemic (COVVI-19), but five people have now been recognized as fraud in the legal system,” said the regulator.
As we pointed out in July, the gaming guard repressed fraud, such as the legislation of the legislation on betting on the violation of the bets of Norsk.
However, the secretary general of the Norwegian Industry Association for Online Gaming, Carl Fredrik Stenstrøm, was publicly critical of the authority of lottery and foundations.
He believes that the closed market of Norway with strict operators controlled nationally is the cause of leniency in the treatment of violations.
“On a freer market, the supplier would have been condemned to close his operations after so many serious violations of the Game Act. However, the probability that this will happen at the bottom of Norsk is low. The economic consequences are too important for this. ”
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