Reading the article, they didn’t defraud the lottery of anything.
They bought winners tickets at 85-90% of the face value, and then claimed the winning but off set the earnings by claiming fake gambling losses.
So the only ones they defrauded is the IRS.
That is the logical take on this. All of their winnings are legit, now figure out if the tax write offs are. How can they possibly do that? The number of man/they/them/her hours will cost more than the taxes lost. Then again, that is the game, they are playing with Monopoly money, and THEY always get THEIR cut.
Looks like the real winners were actually the ones defrauding gov..
They sold the tickets for almost face value without the need of paying taxes. Jaffar then claimed the prices and claimed that he bought soo many tickets that the total worth of those tickets was more than the wins. Since he owned a chain of stores, he obviously sold a lot of tickets, but claimed that most of them he bought himself.