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SB) -1 CANADIANS ft runner f7 VllVVUk MEXICO nucn II if Ult.il U.ll. BUSINESS BC, Dl v. VU1 1 JJ VERS SERIOUSLY WESTCOAST SINCE 1912 WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2007 www.vancouversun.com vArlAIH Vancouvei at 259 B.C. lotto system open to abuse by ticket sellers who trv to rin off customers, renort savs His Life Legacy Living with the history of Vancouver v- Mr BY LARRY PYNN VANCOUVER SUN One retailer ivon 1 1 times Vancouver Sun story by ombudsman in 5 years for total of $300,000 Alarm bells over retailer Unheeded warnings of fraud date back five years with $1M ticket When Ray Crome looks southeast to Mount Baker he sees less a perpetually snow-laden landmark than the image of Joseph Baker, a lieutenant responsible for charting on Captain George Vancouver's epic voyage of discovery. Howe Sound? No glistening Sea to Sky backdrop here, but the Right Honourable Richard Scrope, Earl Howe, First Lord of the Admiralty who led a British fleet against the French Maps compiled by Vancouver lasted centuries, B3 in the Atlantic Ocean in a victory that became known as The Battle of the Glorious.

Even the swampy marsh of Sturgeon Bank off Richmond holds special meaning. That's where Captain Vancouver traded with native Indians for 90-kilogram monsters that are today strictly catch and release. To live in B.C. is to be surrounded by the history of Captain Vancouver whether we know it or not "He's so unappreciated by the people of Vancouver," Crome remarks. "They don't know what he did." Retired 13 years ago as a carpenterforeman with the Vancouver school board, the Australian-born Crome recalls reading Captain Vancouver's journals during a sailing trip along the Pacific coast in 1978 in his single-masted 12-metre sloop, MahiMahi.

BY CHAD SKELTON VANCOUVER SUN INSIDE Solicitor-General John Les launches audit as top BCLC officials deny, then admit, at least one retailer tried to fraudulently cash a lottery ticket, A4 I Can lottery retailers be trusted? Four ways ticket sellers can steal your winning numbers, A5 Retailer wins were more common for some games than others with a high of 11.6 per cent for Keno. The figures, obtained through a Freedom of Information request, raised fears that retailers may be stealing customers' winning tickets. Immediately following the revelations, BCLC said it had confidence in its lotteries and believed the high rate of retailer wins was simply due to retailers playing more often. See TICKETS APPEARED A4 done more to investigate retailer fraud. "There was not sufficient attention paid by the lottery cor-poration to those circumstances," he said.

"They should have gone down there like a rat down a drain pipe and figured it out. They didn't do that." Les refused to say if any senior executives at BCLC would lose their jobs over the matter but noted that, in addition to retailer fraud, the audit will look at broader issues of management and corporate culture at BCLC. B.C. ombudsman Kim Carter launched her investigation in December after The Vancouver Sun reported that lottery retailers in the province were winning major prizes at several times the rate of the general public. According to internal lottery documents obtained by The Sun, over the past six years, those who sell lottery tickets have won 4.4 per cent of all lottery prizes over $10,000 a rate three to six times what would be expected given their share of the population.

The B.C. government has ordered an independent audit of the way lottery tickets are sold in the province after a scathing report released Tuesday found the system open to abuse by unscrupulous retailers trying to cheat their customers. "To say that I am unhappy is an understatement," Solicitor-General John Les told a news conference, with the heads of the B.C. Lottery Corp. at his side.

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