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Hong Kong Case Law

Lottery fraud
  • 4 Nov 1977

    THE QUEEN v. YEUNG CHUNG-SING

    Citation
    THE QUEEN v. YEUNG CHUNG-SING
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCCC177/1977

    Forensic evidence proved the customer receipt had been physically joined to a differently numbered counterfoil and altered (missing/erased serial digit); the validating machine was found to be operating correctly and machine malfunction was rejected; the defendant's explanations were not credible; therefore the only reasonable inference was deliberate forgery and uttering with intent to obtain the lottery prizes, constituting uttering a forged document and an attempt to obtain property by deception.