A source said on Friday that a 53-year-old man had reported to police on Wednesday that he was one of 15 colleagues who had chipped in to buy a Mark Six ticket for the draw on Saturday.
The group reportedly comprised some staff members of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD).
His colleague, a 36-year-old man, bought the ticket and held the account into which the winnings were paid, the source said.
After the ticket won, the 36-year-old refused to evenly divide the prize money among the group, which prompted a dispute, the insider said.
A meeting was held on Wednesday evening at Yip Kan Street in Aberdeen to try to resolve the dispute, but the source said the ticket-buyer allegedly insisted that he would not split the winnings during the roughly half-hour negotiation.
Worrying that the 36-year-old intended to keep the entire prize and disappear, the 53-year-old man filed a police report at 10.06pm the same day.
