Richard Desmond legal action over National Lottery award to begin at high court | National lottery

Media billionaire Richard Desmond will start a bitter courtroom battle that can cost hundreds of millions of pounds over the license to carry out the national lottery to the Gambling Commission and taxpayers this week.

Desmond’s Northern & Shell and the New Lottery Company (TNLC) are suing to the gambling regulator up to $ 1.3 billion in the UK’s largest public sector contract for the Lottery competition process for the labyrinth competition process.

Ultimately, Alwyn, a new vehicle owned by Czech billionaire Karel Komárek, won a 10 -year license in 2022 and has made a lottery since 2024, when the lottery was first carried out by a company other than Camelot.

Daily Express, including the wives of Asian Babes and Readers, the former title owner Dubai -based Desmond, has started a series of legal challenges due to the decision.

Sources close to Desmond said he felt unnecessarily stretched and spent millions in a predetermined proposal process.

Lawyers will make two main claims for their companies. The first is that the proposal competition itself is flawed for more than one reason.

They will claim that the gambling commission accepted the proposal of not being able to fulfill the important criteria of TNLC, that the commission has implemented unidentified criteria and that the regulator cannot provide feedback after the first stage of the competition that may allow the company to improve its proposal.

For the Brexit -backed billionaire, who calls the EU law to maintain its claim, lawyers will indicate the conflicts of interest that may affect the neutrality of the regulator.

They will also say that Allwyn should be disqualified, because they claim that the media violates strict rules against briefing and that the commission did not consider the connections announced by Guardian among the Czech owner and Russian banks.

Desmond’s lawyers claim that their companies were wasting £ 17.5 million in the proposal process.

The second series of the claim is that the commission has arranged after the terms of the contract has been given, that is, the competition should be re -employed and the chance to win desmond.

This is part of the claim that is looking for damage up to £ 1.3 billion for the gains that Desmond’s companies can make.

In practice, any payment may be smaller, as the judge desmond can adjust to a assessment of how likely the likelihood of winning.

However, a victory for the Mogulu of the Media may have a significant cost for charity institutions, and any payment may be taxpayers who need to come from a lottery pot that is left aside to finance good reasons.

If the payment was greater than the fund, which was found to have received approximately 30 million pounds per week, the taxpayer would have to set foot on the bill.

Earlier this year, Desmond rejected a compromise offer from the commission and realized it was worth £ 10 million.

He will defend the process of gambling commission as solid. In legal applications, Desmond’s proposal was “dreamy ve and in a meticulous competition process, he was“ extremely bad ..

If allwyn manages to convince Desmond’s lawyers that a judge should not win the proposal process, he is one side of the case on the basis of his reputation will suffer.

Both sides won various small victories during the Foney War before the lawsuit began.

Desmond dropped some of the scores of the proposal process of his case, and led the judge to pay some of the Allwyns and the costs of the commission to reveal the costs of revealing the costs. This is thought to cost a billionaire a few million pounds.

However, the Gambling Commission tasted the defeat after a blunder by his lawyers who accidentally disclosed thousands of documents that could be used by most desmonds.

The billionaire also received internal e -mails, which the regulator claimed to be “reveling üzere under the alleged negative proof of prejudice. According to Financial Times.

A representative of the Gambling Commission, Allwyn and Richard Desmond refused to comment before the trial that started in the High court on Thursday.