{"id":280231,"date":"2023-07-06T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=280231"},"modified":"2023-07-06T09:42:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T14:42:04","slug":"investigation-suggests-uk-diocese-partially-to-blame-for-employees-gambling-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/investigation-suggests-uk-diocese-partially-to-blame-for-employees-gambling-habit\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Diocese Partly to Blame for Employee’s Gambling Habit, Investigation Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"
Martin Sargeant received a five-year prison sentence for his elaborate scheme to defraud the London Diocesan Fund<\/a> (LDF) of \u00a35.2 million (US$6.3 million) over the course of a decade to feed his gambling habit. In response to the scandal, the church embarked on an extensive investigation aiming to uncover how he was able to keep his scheme going for so long. The diocese has now realized that it was partly to blame.<\/p>\n