London – Sitting in his
prison cell, Paul Buck was determined that something good would
come out of a secret addiction that had seen him gamble away
millions, attempt suicide and almost destroyed his marriage.
The British former wealth manager had a year behind bars to
think about it, after being jailed for stealing 434 000 pounds
(R7.5 million) from his employer, Santander bank, to fund his habit.
“It took one bet on a Thursday afternoon in October 1994 to
turn me from someone who had no interest in gambling to somebody
who didn’t go without a bet for 17 years,” the 41-year-old told
the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
As chief executive of Epic Risk Management, a social
enterprise that educates people about the dangers of gam…
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