The owner of a lottery shop in Ceará is one of the winners of the R$ 168 million Mega-Sena prize.
Alessandro Montenegro, owner of the Aldeota Lottery, is one of the winners of the R$ 168.170.026,83 Mega-Sena prize. He participated in a group bet with 99 other bettors that came out on top. The group bet was made at Montenegro's lottery shop in Fortaleza.
Each winning bet cost R$ 3.139, a value that includes the odds of R$ 2.325,60 and the lottery service fee of R$ 813,96.
The group won the commemorative draw for the 30th anniversary of the prize, which took place this Sunday (24). In addition to the group, a single bet from Rio de Janeiro won the same amount as the pool bet in Ceará.
“Nobody knows each other in this lottery pool. We started the campaign on April 26th and, since then, we've been offering it to our clients,” says Montenegro, still celebrating the million-dollar prize that will be deposited into his bank account.
The winners are spread across Brazil. According to him, prizes were awarded in Manaus, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Roraima, Macapá, Minas Gerais, in some inland areas of Ceará, as well as Fortaleza, and two clients are outside the country: one in Dubai and the other in New York.
The drawn numbers were: 03 – 30 – 33 – 35 – 45 – 47.
Check out the total number of winners:
6 correct guesses – 2 winning bets, one of them from Ceará: R$ 168.170.026,83
5 hits – 590 winning bets, R$13.890,02
4 hits – 37.565 winning bets, R$311,65
The next Mega-Sena draw will take place at 21 PM on May 26th. Bets can be placed until 20 PM on May 26th through the Loterias Caixa app, the Loterias Caixa website, or at any lottery retailer in the country.
The new millionaires need to pick up their prize in person and take it to a Caixa bank branch to begin the process of withdrawing the money. After going to the branch, the funds take up to 72 hours to be deposited into the winner's account.
Other winners
In addition to the R$ 163 million prize, other bets also won in Ceará. One of them won R$ 1.166.761, from a lottery in Aldeota, with 84 shares.
In Acopiara, one person won R$ 13.890. Four other bets from the capital of Ceará, as well as one from Juazeiro do Norte and another from Maranguape, each also won R$ 13.890. ( g1 CE Newsroom )
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