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Privacy watchdog orders OLG to release details of insider win probe

"Ontario's information and privacy commissioner ruled Friday that the OLG has a month to release results of its investigation into the Lotto 6/49 win by a Cambridge convenience store owner in July 2006. An 'insider win' is a lottery win by a store clerk, owner or lottery employee.

"CBC's The Fifth Estate had prompted the ruling because it had appealed a decision by the OLG to refuse to release documents about its 'insider win' investigation into the case.

"Brian Beamish, Ontario's assistant information and privacy commissioner, said in the 51-page ruling that he agreed with the position taken by CBC that 'the public interest is served by bringing greater scrutiny to the process.'..."

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