The difficult life of a man who won 35 billion VND in the lottery but has waited 5 years and still hasn't received it

GĐXH - The man won the lottery jackpot of up to 35 billion VND in 2019, but after 5 years of litigation with the lottery seller, he still has not claimed his prize.

Man won 35 billion VND in lottery but waited 5 years and still hasn't received it

Even though he won the lottery, Mr. Yao still could not receive the prize money. Illustration photo

A man surnamed Yao, in his 40s, a water delivery worker with a monthly income of only $400 (nearly 10 million VND) in Xi'an, China, won a lottery jackpot worth $1.4 million (about 35 billion VND) in 2019.

Accordingly, on July 17, 2019, Yao transferred 2.8 USD to a lottery store owner named Wang, asking him to choose 2 lottery tickets for him. Wang randomly selected 2 tickets and sent a photo to Yao via a social media platform to confirm the purchase. That same evening, one of the tickets Yao bought won the jackpot prize of 1.4 million USD.

However, when Yao went to the store to receive the tickets and redeem the prizes, Wang said that someone else had actually bought the two lottery tickets and that he had mistakenly sent Yao a photo of the lottery tickets.

Wang agreed to pay Yao $20,000 (nearly 500 million VND) as mental compensation. Yao agreed to give Wang his mobile phone to delete all chat history after receiving the above amount.

Two months later, Yao discovered that it was Wang's cousin, Gao, who went to the lottery office to claim the ticket, not someone else as Wang said.

Gao received $1 million (more than VND23 billion) from the Shaanxi Provincial Lottery Management Center in September 2019, after tax was deducted from the lottery prize.

What did the court rule?

Yao then filed a lawsuit against Wang. The court ruled that Gao must return the prize to Yao and that Wang must be jointly responsible for making the restitution.

Gao appealed, and in July this year, the Xi'an Intermediate People's Court upheld the original verdict as there was no evidence to prove Gao purchased the ticket.

Despite winning the case, Yao said he was not satisfied. "The court froze their bank accounts, but there was no money in them. I did not receive a single cent from them," he said.

Wang and Gao's houses have also been put up for auction but have so far gone unsold.

"Before the incident, I lived a normal life. After it happened, I spent all my savings and borrowed hundreds of thousands of yuan to hire a lawyer. How could I not worry about my life?" Yao said.

Yu Shengxiu, Yao's lawyer, said the two are planning to file a court application asking the authorities to investigate where the lottery winnings are hidden.

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