LOTROM SA

Romanian prosecutors are to start hearing testimony from the heads and employees of country's national lottery, CNLR, over illegal slot-machine gambling that is believed to have cost the state budget more than 100 million euros.

BUCHAREST ? Romania is investigating the country's national lottery and a Greek-controlled firm over illegal slot-machine gambling that prosecutors say has cost the state budget more than 100 million euros ($108 million).

Prosecutors with the Prosecution Office of the Bucharest Court of Appeal have ordered the start of a criminal investigation into the Romanian Lottery over unauthorised or unlicensed slot-machine gambling in 2006-2014 that involved 6,263 such machines and damage estimated at RON 463 million.

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