A father and son were arrested after a significant lottery fraud was revealed. Following the discovery of the £1.4 million ($1.8 million) scam, Ali Jaafar, 63, and his son Yousef Jaafar, 29, received sentences of five and four years, respectively.
They arranged the "ten-percenter" plan, in which winning tickets are forcibly resold at a discount in order to evade paying taxes. According to CBS Boston at the time, the Jaafars and another son, Mohammed, were charged with conspiring with real winners to purchase awards for 10 to 20 percent of their true worth and then submitting bogus tax returns.
They arranged the "ten-percenter" plan, in which winning tickets are forcibly resold at a discount in order to evade paying taxes. According to CBS Boston at the time, the Jaafars and another son, Mohammed, were charged with conspiring with real winners to purchase awards for 10 to 20 percent of their true worth and then submitting bogus tax returns.
