An Indian driver received around R$16 million but said he would likely have to move house to avoid public harassment.
Anoop, a driver from Kerala, India, says he was overwhelmed by the requests for financial aid and regretted winning the lottery.
The man won a prize of 250 million rupees in mid-September.
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But a week later, he posted a video asking strangers to stop harassing his family.
“I wish I hadn’t won,” he says. “The third prize would have been better.”
Anoop says in the video that he is considering moving to avoid harassment.
The man made headlines across the country when he won the prize, the biggest prize ever awarded in a lottery in his state.
When the news of the award was heard, his family caught a lot of media attention. “I was really happy when I won,” he says in a recent video.
But the situation “soon got out of control,” he adds. “I can’t leave the house, I can’t go anywhere. My son is sick and I can’t take him to the doctor.”
Anoop, who will receive R$9.93 million after paying the taxes owed to the government, says people come to his house every day.
“All I can say to everyone is that I haven’t received any money yet. No matter how many times I say it, no one understands my problem.”
Anoop says he and his family live with relatives to avoid attention.
The state government said it will launch a financial management training program to help Anoop “use money wisely.”
– This text was published at https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/internacional-62989327.
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source: Noticias
