Overview
- FOI documents indicate Edward Putman satisfied a £939,000 confiscation order, paid about £85,000 in interest, and prosecutors seized £240,000 from the £1.2 million auction of his Kings Langley home.
- Roughly £1.25 million from the £2.5 million payout remains unaccounted for, with no public record of further charges tied to the missing money.
- The fraud used a forged, deliberately damaged ticket with no barcode that Camelot accepted in 2009, prompting a £3 million Gambling Commission fine in 2016 for weak controls.
- The case reopened after Camelot employee Giles Knibbs died by suicide in 2015, police later located the ticket in 2017, and Putman was convicted and jailed in 2019.
- Putman was released last year under prison-capacity measures, and victims and associates are calling for answers on the unrecovered funds.