Casino blames "faulty" machine for $12m payout
Buenos Aires: A casino outside Buenos Aires refuses to pay out $12 million in winnings on a slot machine they say had a technical glitch."We will pay the maximum amount that can be won on that machine: 35 000 pesos" or about $11 000, Bingo casino manager Hector Luna told Clarin newspaper.
"Don't bet on it," said Veronica Baena, who already has a lawyer.
"If the machine is broken, that is Bingo's problem," Guillermo Blouson, Baena's attorney, told the Buenos Aires daily.
The machine in question has been placed under police surveillance inside the casino awaiting university experts who will inspect the software inside.
Clarin recalled that in a similar case in 2001, a court ordered a casino to pay out $26 000, reasoning that the machine's inner workings "are the responsibility of the casino, pure and simple". - Sapa-AFP
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