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AUSTIN, Texas — A convenience-store clerk pocketed a customer’s $1 million winning lottery ticket, claimed the prize and skipped town, possibly going back to his native Nepal, authorities said.
Pankaj Joshi, 25, took 67- year-old Willis Willis’ winning Mega Millions Megaplier ticket after Willis asked Joshi in May to check whether any of his numbers were winners, investigators said.
Joshi claimed the prize — about $750,000 after taxes — at a lottery claim center in Austin, had the money wired to a bank account and disappeared, authorities said.
