Updated: Thursday, July 2 2015, 09:21 PM CDT 

A Texas fugitive is also being sought by the International Criminal Police Organization, or INTERPOL. Pankaj Joshi is wanted for fraud and investigators say he may have fled to his native Nepal. Pankaj Joshi made headlines in 2009 when investigators say he stole a million dollar lottery ticket.

"It was unbelievable that happened and that I had the winning ticket," said Willis Willis, the man investigators say rightfully owned the winning ticket. Investigators say in the summer of 2009, Willis handed his ticket over to Pankaj Joshi, the clerk at the Lucky Food Store in Grand Prairie, Texas. "In the course of Mr. Willis presenting a ticket to see if his numbers matched a winning set of lottery numbers, Joshi ran the numbers through the system and the ticket resulted in a winning ticket, a $1 million payout," says Lone Star Fugitive Task Force Commander Hector Gomez. 

But instead of telling Willis the good news, investigators say Joshi kept the million dollar ticket and cashed it in to the Texas Lottery Commission and then left the country. "Joshi was in transit to various countries, I assume, in an effort to return to Nepal and the last place that we are aware that he landed was Bangkok, Thailand," says Gomez. Now, Joshie is an INTERPOL red notice fugitive. That means that 190 countries are looking for him so he can be extradited back to the United States. "Pankaj Joshi, if convicted, is looking at a maximum penalty of 20 years in the Texas Department of corrections," says Gomez. As for the victim, Willis Willis, he ended up getting about half his money, cash seized from Joshi's bank accounts and relatives. If you have any information that can help U.S. Marshals track down Joshi, call the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force tip line at (512) 800-4213. (Photo from the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force.) By Lydia Pantazes

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