According to reports, Norway's state-owned gambling company, Norsk Tipping, mistakenly sent false jackpot notifications to over a thousand Eurojackpot lottery winners due to a technical system failure. This led people to believe they had won millions. The company's CEO, Tonje Sagstuen, took responsibility and resigned, publicly apologizing for the error.
The incident occurred last Friday (June 27) when the system incorrectly multiplied winnings by 100 instead of dividing them by 100 during the Euro to Norwegian Krone conversion, inflating the amounts by a hundred times. Although the actual winning amounts were corrected on Saturday (June 28th), no refunds were issued, causing significant disappointment among the public.
Sagstuen publicly apologized, confirming that many winners had already planned vacations, renovations, and even purchases of homes. She stated she can only say sorry to them. Lubna Jaffery, Minister of Culture and Equality, criticized the company, stating that such mistakes are unacceptable for the nation's only legal gambling operator and demanded immediate improvements to their auditing procedures.
This incident is not the company's first mistake; they admitted to frequent technical failures over the past year and have recently been warned by regulatory authorities for serious negligence.
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