Texas Rangers opens the examination of the Texas lottery

Austin, Texas – The Texas Rangers open an investigation by the Texas Lottery. On Monday, the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, instructed the Texas Rangers to examine two incidents – including a recent 83 million US dollar, which was won in Austin with a courier service.

Governor Abbott opened the investigation on Monday on Monday: “Texans earn a lottery that is fair and transparent for everyone.”

Some of the concerns of governors Abbott and those of the Texas legislators are that courier services have the potential to enable money laundering and enable minors to buy lottery cards.

The use of a courier service is not illegal in Texas. Lt. However, governor Dan Patrick posted a video on X by saying that courier services undermine confidence in the lottery and to erode the trust that nobody has an advantage.

“The lottery commission failed to keep all the headmaster that protected it,” said Bob Hall, Senator of the US state of Texas.

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During a meeting of the committee on Monday, the Senator Hall stated how he and a cross -party coalition of the senators plan to prevent curiners from operating in Texas.

“This is a dark and sad day for Texas, and I have no pleasure to remove this priority calculation SB-28 in order to end the poorly conceived lottery courier operations in Texas,” said Hall.

Traditionally, lottery cards were only personally available. The introduction of couriers enabled remote access to the games. Customers can buy tickets online for a bonus. A courier then goes to an inpatient business to physically buy the tickets and send photos of buying to the customer.

“It opened the doors for the most important and far-reaching lottery fraud in world history,” said Hall.

The executive director of Texas Lottery Commission said on Monday that he does not think that couriers are legal under state law. This is a change from the long -term claim of the Commission that it has no control over practice.

Commissioner Clark Smith resigned last Friday, shortly after the controversial victory and the legislator's examination of 83 million US dollars were feared by the legislators of the state that couriers could potentially play the lottery system.

The Texas Lottery Commission is currently being checked by the state's Sunset Advisory Commission. The project manager Andrew McConnell said on Monday morning in front of a subcommittee of the Texas House.

“It turned out that the then managing director took some measures that created a favorable environment for couriers,” said McConnell. “With regard to the legend of the TLC for the beginning, there was no authority to regulate couriers. To ignore some of his employees' recommendations that there were problems with the courier model that had to be considered. “

The TLC's declaration of guidelines that Lotto Ticket Courier Services is now not permitted according to Texas law will be recorded on March 4 at a meeting of the Lottery Commission Board.