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Their new accommodations will be far different than the multi-million dollar mansions they purchased with their ill-gotten lottery winnings.

In a Milton courtroom Tuesday, a father and his son and his daughter were sentenced to prison terms for their roles in an outrageous insider lottery scandal that forced OLG to tighten their security procedures with retailers.

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Kenneth Chung, 35, who operated Variety Plus in Burlington, and his father Jun-Chul Chung, 68, who worked there part-time, were found guilty in April of stealing lottery tickets during an eight-month period ending in February 2004.

The father was also convicted of stealing the winning $12.5-million Lotto Super 7 ticket in December 2003 and was found guilty — with his daughter Kathleen Chung, who falsely claimed the winnings — of possessing stolen property and defrauding the OLG.

Ontario Superior Court Justice Douglas Gray rejected calls from their lawyers to hand down conditional sentences — or in the case of Kenneth, a suspended sentence, calling it not “appropriate” in such a “large scale fraud.” Instead, he said it is important to deliver a punishment that will deter others.