https://cdn.worldofbuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/speaker/post-415116.mp3?cb=1615363518.mp3 How many of us can forgive and forget when our friends or relatives owe us a sum of money? 32-year-oldNguyen Van Minh recently made a will and the first clause states that he will be forgiving and cancelling all his family and friends debt to him. For illustration purposes only. The total amount of…
A doctor defrauded more than 67,000 from the NHS and colleagues by claiming payment for overlapping locum shifts and falsifying cheques in order to pay off a gambling debt. Dr Aled Jones, 39, was employed at the University Hospital of Wales (UHW) in Cardiff as a registrar when he carried out the frauds, which took…
A couple from Wiltshire whose son took his own life after running up huge gambling debts are calling for changes in the law to stop betting sites sponsoring sports teams. Josh Jones became addicted to gambling, and eventually ran up a debt of more than 30,000. Despite treatment and the support of his family, an…
Susana Jimenez, lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the Bellvitge Campus. To date, there were almost no studies comparing the gender features of gambling disorder and its evolution into more severe clinical conditions. Now, two articles published in Scientific Reports and Neuropsychiatry determine that men and women have different profiles in…
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Shame and guilt forever’: Read the harrowing letter from a gambling addict mum who blew her daughter’s $93,000 inheritance from her dead dad during a 360-hour pokie binge Single mother-of-two fed $480,000 into pokie machines in just four years $93,000 of that money was stolen from her daughter’s trust fund from her dad The…
GAMBLING debts led a young father to buy several stolen caravans cheaply before rebirthing and selling them using a legal loophole. The man was caught when a woman negotiating to buy one of the caravans went to police after becoming suspicious. He was investigated and charged in relation to four stolen caravans worth more than…
image copyrightPremier Newsimage captionIain Gardyne stole more than 200 pieces of equipment from the council A former Dundee City Council supervisor stole smoke alarms and other equipment and sold them to try to pay off a 65,000 gambling debt, a court heard. Iain Gardyne spent almost four years stealing thousands of pounds worth of items…
A South Australian butcher who could not secure a bank loan to repay a large business debt has escaped jail for money laundering a man’s superannuation funds “in desperation”. Key points: Michael Kevin Cheney admitted knowingly engaging in money laundering The court heard he spent the money to feed his gambling addiction He received a…
I lost thousands gambling … then tried to kill myself: One lost her home and husband. Another borrowed money for bets from her son. As the number of female problem gamblers in Britain tops 75,000, four victims share their desperate stories Number of problem female gamblers in the UK hasrisen by a third in five…
Heres a list of Australian financial institutions that you could consider using to help curb your gambling spend. Australians lose more money to gambling in the world than anyone else, throwing away over $US900 per capita each year according to a 2017 study. Meanwhile, Queensland Treasury stats report Australians collectively bet around $250 billion (with…