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Online lotteries still not outlined
The controversy over handing over the management of Sri Lanka's new Online Lottery to a foreign company, continues. The monetory share that will be paid for the foreign company as the management fee has been kept a secret while the percentage going to the Government from the revenue has been made known.

Online National Lotteries (Pvt) Ltd (ONL) disclosed that 25 percent of the proceeds from the ONL's gross revenue would go to the Parliament Scholarship Fund as charity but would not say how much share would go to Norwegian Norsk Tipping which is managing the ONL.

Norsk Tipping's Chief Operation Manager Asbjorn Nilson told The Sunday Times that the amount of money they would receive from the ONL was a business matter between the ONL and Norsk Tipping and therefore it could not be spelt out.

ONL Marketing and Sales Manager Manoji Samaratne told a news conference that the company was fully owned by the National Lotteries Board and the foreign company would only provide the management expertise. She said part of the revenue would go as prizes and commissions to agents.

However, economic analysts are querying as to why the management fee that is to be received by the Norwegian Government owned Norsk Tipping has not been made transparent as the NLB is claiming that the ONL is fully owned by it.

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