Police interview woman over missing trip to Disneyland
Police have launched a criminal investigation into a missing trip to Disneyland that was meant to be awarded to a racegoer as part of a Greyhound Racing Victoria promotion in 2017.
The prize, worth $10,000, was part of a Gippsland Carnival promotion in 2017 and drawn at the Traralgon Cup in March that year.
Police are investigating a missing trip to Disneyland.Credit:Bloomberg
However, industry insiders told The Age in September that the prize was not claimed by a racegoer, but was taken by a former employee of GRV.
GRV asked the state’s racing integrity commissioner Sean Carroll to investigate the claims, but the matter is now in the hands of Victoria Police.
“Police are investigating allegations of deception and theft at a business in 2017,” Victoria Police told The Age.
“A 47-year-old woman has attended a police station for interview and was released pending further enquiries.”
The Age contacted the accused person in September, but they denied taking the trip to Disneyland, located in Anaheim, California.
The accused person said they did buy a ticket to travel to Disneyland in 2020 with their own money, but the trip was abandoned.
“They were tickets purchased on my American Express card and refunded by Qantas,” the person said.
The accused employee said they were horrified by the accusations and willing to co-operate with any investigation. “I am lost for words, really. I feel like this is just a targeted attack on me for other things that have happened,” they said.
The former GRV employee told The Age a non-disclosure statement prevented them discussing the circumstances of their departure from the organisation.
In late 2016, GRV promoted its four-meeting Gippsland summer carnival by offering racegoers a chance to win a trip to the famous theme park if they attended at least two of the four race days.
Racegoers needed to get their Gippsland Carnival family passport stamped on entry at a “passport pavilion”, with two stamps qualifying them to go into the draw to win the prize, which had an advertised value of $10,000.
The family prize, for two adults and two children, was touted as “a trip of a lifetime”.
But there was no promotion following the event about a winner claiming the prize.
GRV had attempted to investigate the matter internally, but was unable to find sufficient evidence regarding the missing trip.
The trip to Disneyland was never used again by GRV as part of a raceday attraction program.
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