Lottery

Turkey’s Supreme Board of Privatization has approved the privatization of the operating rights of the national lottery, Milli Piyango, to Net Şans-Hitay consortium for up to 10 years, according to a statement issued in the Official Gazette on Aug. 29.

The appeals court convicted Copos on Monday of dodging one million euro in taxes after one of his companies sold retail spaces to the state-owned Romanian Lottery.

Four other people were also sentenced to jail for the involvement in the crime, including a former chief of the Lottery. 

A lucky winner guessed the six digits of the Thursday draw of Bulgaria's toto lottery and will walk away with the jackpot of BGN 7 258 184, report the media. 

The ticket with the winning digits  6, 7, 10, 13, 22, 26  of the 6/49 game was bought for BGN 2.80 in Sofia. 

This is the third largest jackpot in the more than 50 years of history of Bulgaria's Sports Totalizator. 

Turkey will make nearly $10 billion from privatization of state sales if all of the most recent privatizations, including the national lottery sale for an over the top price, were approved by the government Turkey’s income from privatizations since the beginning of the year has exceeded expectations, approaching $10 billion with the recent privatization of a 10-year national lottery li

A Turkish man has won 206,000 Turkish Liras in the lottery after playing the minutes of Germany’s historic Brazil rout goals as his lucky numbers.

Greece's betting monopoly OPAP has begun a voluntary redundancy scheme for about three-quarters of its staff to cut costs, one of its biggest unions said on Thursday.

A lucky person who bought a ticket in Varna won the BGN 5 026 320 jackpot in the 6/49 game, said the Bulgarian Toto sports lottery.

The lucky winner guessed the six winning digits: 27, 28, 36, 25, 5.

The ticket cost BGN 0.7.

Four companies or groups have qualified in the preliminary tender for the right to operate Turkey’s national lottery, Milli Piyango, Turkey’s Privatization Board said in a written statement May 28.