Convicted rapist who bagged £2.5m Lotto jackpot had his FAKE ticket ‘made for him by a Camelot fraud expert’
Whistleblower claims fraud expert Giles Knibbs had 24/7 access to lottery operator's fraud department that had ticket printing machine.
A LOTTERY whistleblower has said that a fraud expert printed off a winning ticket from inside Camelot's offices before passing it onto a friend who then claimed the £2.5million jackpot.
The con, which took place in 2009, is the biggest in the Lotto operator's history and the whistleblower claimed it could happen again.
Up until now it was thought that fraud expert Giles Knibbs helped criminal Eddie Putman get his hands on the unclaimed prize by tipping him off about the numbers he needed and which shop he needed to buy the ticket from.
The two struck up a friendship after Knibbs employed Putman - who has convictions for rape, grievous bodily harm, and robbery - as a builder.
However, a whistleblower has now come forward to say that they believe Knibbs printed the ticket off from inside lottery headquarters in Watford using his 24/7 access to ticket printing machines, reported the .
They said that if anybody knew how to find a backdoor in the system it was the expert Knibbs who had round the clock access to Camelot's fraud department and was paid to investigate false claims about winning tickets.
They said: "If there was a back door to be able to carry out a fraud he would have known it. He was taught the back doors."
They added: "He may have gone in at any time. It wasn't unusual for him to be there late at night. He'd have had to scan tickets and to do that he needed a machine with a barcode scanner.
"He's manipulated that somehow. I believe Knibbs actually created a ticket, there's no other way he could do it. He would have seen the draw and he would have manipulated the ticket after the draw was done."
The whistleblower also said that lottery bosses had attempted to "hush up" investigations and that, following an internal audit. one lottery employee said: "We're in trouble."
Hertfordshire Police said the case was currently being reviewed and Camelot said they could not confirm or deny the whistle blower's report.
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