A lottery ticket seller hailed as a good samaritan 11 years ago for apparently trying to track down the owner of an unclaimed winning ticket worth €4.7m (£4.05m) faces a possible six-year jail sentence on charges that he defrauded the rightful owner of their winnings.
Police allege that Manuel Reija González, a ticket seller in the north-western Spanish city of A Coruña, told the winner of the lottery drawn in June 2012 that his ticket was worth just over a euro and then, with the help of his brother, who worked for the national lottery, attempted to cash in the ticket himself. Both brothers have denied any wrongdoing.
