{"id":12417,"date":"2018-09-12T07:10:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T11:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=12417"},"modified":"2018-09-12T07:10:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T11:10:08","slug":"2-5m-lottery-fraud-edward-putman-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2018\/09\/12\/2-5m-lottery-fraud-edward-putman-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;\u00a32.5m lottery fraud&#8217;: Edward Putman charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A man has been charged with fraudulently claiming a \u00a32.5m lottery payout.<\/p>\n<p>Hertfordshire Police said a ticket was submitted for an outstanding lottery prize and \u00a32.5m was paid out in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Edward Putman, 53, of Station Road, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, has been charged with fraud by false representation.<\/p>\n<p>The force said an investigation began in 2015 &#8220;after evidence came to light that the claim was not genuine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Camelot, which runs the National Lottery, said it was &#8220;not appropriate for us to comment at this stage, given that the matter is now the subject of criminal proceedings&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Putman has been released on bail and is due to appear at St Albans Magistrates&#8217; Court on 16 October.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-45483196\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">A man has been charged with fraudulently claiming a \u00a32.5m lottery payout. Hertfordshire Police said a ticket was submitted for an outstanding lottery prize and \u00a32.5m was paid out in 2009. Edward Putman, 53, of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2018\/09\/12\/2-5m-lottery-fraud-edward-putman-charged\/\" title=\"&#8216;\u00a32.5m lottery fraud&#8217;: Edward Putman charged\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[5510,4815,2084],"class_list":{"0":"post-12417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-uk","9":"tag-edward-putman","10":"tag-lottery","11":"tag-national-lottery","12":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12418,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12417\/revisions\/12418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}