text: Two New Zealand men ran illegal text lottery
  
  August 18, 2006 
  
  Two New Zealand men, Richard Stuart Hayes and Troy Jonathon Elliot, have been convicted of running an illegal mobile text based competition after 27 winners did not receive the car prizes. The pair were found guilty yesterday in a decision reached by Judge Nicola Mathers in Auckland District Court, following a February hearing. 
  The two convicts, whose names were suppressed until yesterday, are the directors of the company which ran the 'TxtDrive' competition in March 2004, the Watch and Win Company. The company had hoped to gain a profit of NZ$2.5 million, but due to lack of interest and entrants they could not afford to honour the daily prizes as they had only raised $414,595. 
  "I am satisfied that the Department of Internal Affairs(DIA) has proved to me beyond reasonable doubt that Mr Hayes and Mr Elliot organised an illegal lottery. I consider they deliberately entered into the scheme and were careless as to the legality of this novel scheme." Judge Mathers said.
tokens: Two New Zealand men ran illegal text lottery August 18 , 2006 Two New Zealand men , Richard Stuart Hayes and Troy Jonathon Elliot , have been convicted of running an illegal mobile text based competition after 27 winners did not receive the car prizes . The pair were found guilty yesterday in a decision reached by Judge Nicola Mathers in Auckland District Court , following a February hearing . The two convicts , whose names were suppressed until yesterday , are the directors of the company which ran the ' TxtDrive ' competition in March 2004 , the Watch and Win Company . The company had hoped to gain a profit of NZ$2.5 million , but due to lack of interest and entrants they could not afford to honour the daily prizes as they had only raised $ 414,595 . " I am satisfied that the Department of Internal Affairs(DIA ) has proved to me beyond reasonable doubt that Mr Hayes and Mr Elliot organised an illegal lottery . I consider they deliberately entered into the scheme and were careless as to the legality of this novel scheme . " Judge Mathers said .
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