A Primitiva awarded with 4.7 million euros, an unknown proprietor and an accused lottery. They are the elements of a most weird story that occurred in A Coruña. They say that actuality is stranger than fiction, and a lot in order that the Unicorn Content manufacturing firm has based mostly itself on these info to supply a docuseries that premieres this Friday on HBO Max. Three chapters make up “Millionaire Wanted”, which displays the well-known case.
It all began on June 26, 2012. It was when the ticket that later appeared within the Manuel Reija Lottery administration was stamped. He assures that on July 2, La Primitiva was discovered on the counter when there was nobody within the administration, and due to this fact he didn’t know who it’d belong to. After discovering that she was awarded, in line with his model, he gave the receipt to his brother Miguel Reija, who at the moment was the State Lottery and Gambling delegate in A Coruña.
But in line with what the Police might confirm, the lottery really verified in a number of seconds a complete of 4 tickets, the bets that the fortunate winner had made in one other metropolis administration days earlier than. The investigations counsel that within the case of the awarded Primitiva, it was verified as much as 3 times. The “increased prize” message should have appeared on the machine, however the lottery solely paid the proprietor a smaller prize, three euros, which corresponded to a different of the tickets. That is why the Prosecutor’s Office accuses each the lottery participant and his brother of deceiving the proprietor of the ticket to maintain the cash.
A secret prize for greater than a yr
The discovering of the awarded Primitive was stored secret for a bit of over a yr. Everything got here to gentle a while later, when the lottery participant explains what occurred and tries to gather the cash since, in line with the regulation, if the proprietor doesn’t seem in two years, the prize goes to whoever discovered it.
In 2013, an announcement was revealed within the Official Gazette of the Province (BOP) wherein the A Coruña City Council was entrusted with opening a ‘discovery file’ for 2 years to attempt to discover its proprietor. It is then that it’s made public that there’s a millionaire who nonetheless doesn’t know that he’s.
But it was too late to test the safety cameras of the institution the place the Primitiva had been sealed. The time elapsed made the investigation to find the rightful proprietor very difficult.
The proprietor would have already handed away.
Since then there have been greater than 200 individuals who claimed that the ticket was theirs. Since the cascade of claims started, there have been lawsuits for civil lawsuits. Only the kin of two individuals who claimed the prize and who’ve already died filed a felony criticism. The man to whom the police attribute possession of the prize-winning Primitiva additionally died. A retiree from A Coruña who usually made the identical wager.
Eleven years later the cash continues to be with out an proprietor. And the loot is now larger, as a result of the 4.7 million euros have been growing as a result of curiosity that has been generated throughout this time.
The lottery and his brother are pending trial. Both will sit on the bench accused of a criminal offense of misappropriation. But the Court of A Coruña has upheld the attraction made by the State Attorney’s Office and the provisional dismissal of the case has been agreed with respect to 4 different investigated, all of them senior officers of State Lotteries and Gambling on the time that occasions occurred.
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