Purchase at multiple stores 2 hours before the drawing
Won all 50,000 copies of 7 numbers… “Investigation needed”
Controversy arose after it became known that a person in China purchased 50,000 lottery tickets with the same numbers and received a total winnings of close to 40 billion won.
On the 9th (local time), local media such as China’s CCTV reported that a person who purchased 50,000 tickets of the ‘Quirer 8’ lottery ticket with the same number on the 2nd won 220 million yuan (about 40.2 billion won).
Quira 8 is a lottery that randomly selects at least 1 and up to 10 numbers from 1 to 80. You can purchase up to 10,000 tickets per person. There are 20 numbers drawn per time, and the more numbers you match, the higher the amount. The winnings range from a few hundred won to hundreds of millions of won.
The winner in question went to various stores and purchased lottery tickets with the same 7 numbers and won all of them. The prize money for winning 7 numbers is about KRW 800,000 (total of KRW 40 billion), and the amount he used to purchase lottery tickets amounts to KRW 100,000 (KRW 18.3 million).
However, the fact that he purchased 50,000 tickets, well over the 10,000 per person purchase limit, became controversial. In addition, it was revealed that the lottery ticket was purchased just two hours before the lottery broadcast began, sparking controversy.
According to the media, he claimed that he regularly purchased lottery tickets worth thousands to tens of thousands of yuan.
Local media urged the authorities to investigate, saying, “As many people have questions, we must conduct a thorough investigation and come up with an explanation that the public can understand.”
China banned lotteries through anti-gambling laws after the Communist Party took power in 1949, but currently issues various lotteries. Due to the recession, lottery purchases in China increased by more than 50% this year. Currently, the size of China’s lottery market is over 86 trillion won, the second largest in the world after the United States.
Source: Donga
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