Norsk Tipping chief executive Tonje Sagstuen has resigned, after customers were mistakenly told they had won life-changing amounts of money.
Sagstuen stepped down on Saturday evening (28 June) following an emergency meeting with the Norwegian Ministry of Culture, after leading the state-owned operator for just under two years.
The news follows a glitch with the operator’s system which resulted in Eurojackpot winners’ totals being incorrectly converted from euro cents to Norwegian kroner, leading to customers thinking they had won much higher sums than they had in reality.
In a statement, Sagstuen said: “As a manager, it has been my responsibility to handle the mistakes that have occurred.”
