Octopus Is Economic Threat
According to The Daily Telegraph and Kazakhstan’s Liter, the Kazakhstan Association of Bookmakers blames Paul the Octopus for a bad take from this year’s World Cup. Out of 10 billion tenge (almost $67 million) put down on World Cup matches in Kazakhstan, bookmakers only made 150 million tenge profit ($1 million), or 1.5%. They had hoped to make twice as much money.
So what happened? Apparently the blame lies on Paul who steered betters clear of making bad bets. Whether the octopus will be sued in the International Criminal Court for intention to defraud bookmakers and harm the economy of Kazakhstan has yet to be decided.
By the way, not sure what passion for sushi the Telegraph article is talking about here.
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