The military regime was unable to crack down on the illegal lottery.

Last week the state attorney general's office in Boston said "Infinity" was an illegal lottery.

Thousands of people invested a reported R140-million in the scheme before it was declared an illegal lottery.

Their main criminal activities included voter intimidation, armed robbery, assault, illegal lottery, and murder.

He dressed in old clothes and, again accompanied by a reporter, bought bolita (an illegal lottery) tickets on the street.

The roots of the phrase can be traced to the illegal lottery known as "policy" in late 19th-century America.

That led to a lawsuit, still pending, claiming that the process constituted an illegal lottery.

He later collected money from people who played illegal lotteries.

An earlier alternative economy was based on the jogo de bicho, an illegal lottery that became big business.

On July 1, 2005, two matrix sites, pulsematrix.com and phones4everyone (themobilematrix.com), were declared to be running a form of illegal lottery.