Romania’s finance ministry recently turfed the national lottery’s general manager after only 10 days on the job.

Mihai Paduraru was hired as the new boss of the scandal-plagued state-run Romanian Lottery on August 10, only to be shown the door on August 20, two days after he agreed to what observers felt was an overpriced deal to buy 2k lottery terminals and a new IT network from a local company with no lottery experience.

Experienced lottery giant International Game Technology had earlier backed out of the bidding for the lottery contract due to its view that the framework agreement imposed “a level of risk on the provider by setting penalties without a threshold and short delivery times, which are not a market standard.”

Romanian media outlet Digi24 reported that Paduraru is something of a phantom, in that the Lottery released no photos or biographical data before or during his 10-day tenure, and the Lottery has reportedly declined to furnish this info following Paduraru’s exit.