Winner of 70 million US dollar lottery in Canada unveiled

The winners of a massive 70 million dollar -lottery jackpots in Canada were announced.

Loto-Québec has announced that Jacques Deschamps, who lives in Montérégie and Wilhelmina van Leewen von Montreal, divided the Jackpot on Friday, July 11th at the Lotto Max-Ümschieden and each took home $ 35 million.

On Wednesday they received their prizes in the Loto Québec headquarters, according to a press release.

Deschamps regularly buys Lotto -Max -Tickets and early Saturday morning he checked his ticket on his cell phone as he had a coffee, it said in the release.

At first he thought he had won $ 3,500 and then $ 35,000.

He asked his spouse to also check the ticket.

Stared, she said to him: “You won 35 million!”

“Deschamps hurried to send his son, who was still sleeping, to send a photo of the winning ticket. Uninvuption, he and his spouse called his house to ask her daughter -in -law to wake him up when exciting messages awaited him,” said the publication.

Meanwhile, Van Leeuwen found that on Tuesday evening she won the other half of the 70 million US dollar Jackpot while checking some tickets from a retailer.

And the next morning she was certainly in the Loto Québec headquarters to claim the price.

With regard to her plans for the profits, Deschamps said that he wanted to spoil his family, buy an apartment in Montreal and travel around the world, according to the press release.

Van Leeuwen also plans to travel.

She said she wanted to make a few trips in the first class.

The retailers in which the tickets were bought receive a percent commission of 350,000 US dollars.

“This is the second time in a few weeks that the Lotto Max Jackpot was won in Québec,” said Isabelle Jean, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from Lottery Games at Loto-Québec.

“At the beginning of June, 15 Trois Rivières employees, employees divide a jackpot of $ 20,000,000, and this time a jackpot of $ 70,000,000 with two selections sold here was won.”

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