Woman Sues Colleague Over $50m Lotto Max Ticket
Are we near to solving the mystery of the winner of the $50 million Lotto Max ticket which remains unclaimed since March this year?
A woman from Burnaby filed a civil claim against her co-worker in a BC Supreme Court, claiming that he is hiding the unclaimed Lotto Max ticket. Gayleen Elliott is claiming that the Dalbir Sidbu used funds from their workplace pool to purchase lottery tickets for himself, and he is now preventing the group from getting their hands on their multi million dollar win.
A group of co-workers at Shoppers Drug Mart entered into a weekly lottery pool contract in 2012, where each member pledged to contribute $5 to play the lottery. They would buy Lotto Max and Lotto 6/49 tickets and each of the eight members would take it in turns to choose one set of numbers, while four would request a Quick Pick.
Sidhu, according to the claim, was entrusted to buy the tickets on a weekly basis and report numbers to the syndicate.
Not for Personal Use
One of the clauses of the contract entered into between the members of the lottery syndicate was that they were not allowed to use the pooled money to purchase personal tickets.
This, however, is what Elliott believes that Sidhu did with the money given to him - and one of his tickets bought on March 14th was the $50 million Lotto Max winner.
On March 14th, Elliott discovered that the winning ticket was sold in Langley. She approached Sidhu and asked to see the tickets he bought with the syndicate's weekly contributions and he directed her to a box where past lottery tickets were held.
After searching through the box, Elliott was unable to find tickets from that date. Last week, Sidhu sent members of the syndicate a letter stating that he had forgotten to buy tickets on that particular date due to family engagements.
The co-workers also approached the BC Lottery Corporation and were told that nobody played the numbers they picked on that particular draw date.
Claims of Hiding Winning Lottery Ticket
Gayleen Elliott claims in her lawsuit that Sidhu actually used the money given to him to purchase lottery tickets for his own personal gain. She is suing him for being in fraudulent possession of the March 14 tickets, one of which is the winning Quick Pick lottery ticket.
Winning numbers on that fateful draw were 3, 4, 5, 7, 31, 33 and 40, while the bonus number was 49.
Neither side would comment on the case.
