Man arrested after allegedly refusing to share HK$30m Mark Six jackpot with group
Por Eric Jiang — South China Morning Post – News feed
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Insider says 36-year-old refused to evenly divide prize money with 14 others who bought ticket, prompting man to make police report
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Eric Jiang Published: 12:15am, 12 Sep 2026 Updated: 12:30am, 12 Sep 2026
Hong Kong police have arrested a 36-year-old man suspected of having fled with a Mark Six jackpot worth around HK$30 million that he should have shared with 14 colleagues.
A source said on Friday that a 53-year-old man had reported to police on Wednesday that he was one of 15 colleagues who had chipped in to buy a Mark Six ticket for the draw on Saturday.
The group reportedly comprised some staff members of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD).
His colleague, a 36-year-old man, bought the ticket and held the account into which the winnings were paid, the source said.
After the ticket won, the 36-year-old refused to evenly divide the prize money among the group, which prompted a dispute, the insider said.
A meeting was held on Wednesday evening at Yip Kan Street in Aberdeen to try to resolve the dispute, but the source said the ticket-buyer allegedly insisted that he would not split the winnings during the roughly half-hour negotiation.
Worrying that the 36-year-old intended to keep the entire prize and disappear, the 53-year-old man filed a police report at 10.06pm the same day.
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