Cheng Saephan, a 46-year-old man from the city of Portland in the United States, suffering from terminal cancer, won a jackpot of $1.3 billion.
This Sunday, April 7, 2024, a jackpot of 1.326 billion dollars (more than 1.23 billion euros) was won in a Powerball drawing. The lucky winner is a 46-year-old man of Laotian origin from Portland, in the state of Oregon in the United States who is suffering from terminal cancer.
“I will be able to provide for my family and my health”
Cheng Saephan has been ill for eight years and received his last chemotherapy treatment last week, according to the news agency Associated Press. “How am I going to have time to spend all this money? How long am I going to live?”he explained during a press conference organized by the Oregon Lottery this Monday, April 29, 2024. “I will be able to provide for my family and my health“, rejoiced the forty-year-old.
Cheng Saephan also assured that he and his partner Duanpen Saephan, aged 37, accepted a lump sum payment of their winnings. After taxes, they should receive $422 million. The couple are therefore not billionaires since the lottery prizes are subject to taxation in the United States. They want to divide this amount in half in order to give half to a relative who had bought a set of $100 tickets for them.
