Lottery: Scams & Scandals


Chaired by the radical deputy for Santa Fe, Agustín Rodríguez Araya, the commission summoned ministers and officials, uncovering serious


irregularities within the organisation, including the use of differently weighted balls and the


manipulation of unclaimed winning tickets. Te list of buyers for 31,025 included judges, councillors, and former ministers.


In fact, tickets with that number sold out so fast that they


soon became unavailable in Buenos Aires and some desperate to get their hands on some easy cash travelled to the provinces, such as Santa Fe and Tucumán, to find it. But it had already sold out. On the day of the draw, which was conducted at eleven in the morning, everything went according to plan. Upon receiving a barely perceptible signal, the young men announced the agreed-upon number. But by then the cat was well and truly out of the bag. Te alert was raised in the afternoon edition of a newspaper


which claimed that the lottery had been rigged. A parliamentary commission was formed to investigate the


matter. Chaired by the radical deputy for Santa Fe, Agustín Rodríguez Araya, the commission summoned ministers and officials, uncovering serious irregularities within the organisation, including the use of differently weighted balls and the manipulation of unclaimed winning tickets. Te list of buyers for 31,025 included judges, councillors, and former ministers. Te young men received sentences ranging from three to four years, but ultimately were released after just a short time with the head of the commission concluding that they had been small cogs in a much larger corrupt system.


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