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I think your country situations very similar such as my country that decades ago when my government decide to legalize lottery they want particular percentages from the prize of lottery will be used for build public facilities and this plan only in the beginning good but when it was running for more than a year the lottery companies didn't give the money as their promised even the owners are more likely to corrupt the money prize so since that finally my government forbid the lottery and it happens until now
Ikr, It always goes that way, greed will always take over when you see millions of money in your local currency coming in to your office every single day. Corruption always exist where money is involved.
Not to mention the huge amount of tax percentage they get from the winner.
Anyway, good job for your government on shutting down corrupt lottery offices.
Here, in my country they put a temporary halt on lottery operations in July after finding out some anomalies happening on the lottery office, but has been resumed on the latter.