Man who kept £1million lottery win secret from wife ordered to pay her back
A court has ordered a man to repay his wife after he hid his bumper lottery winnings from her and gave a slice to his ex.
The man, identified by his surname Zhou, scooped 8.43million yuan (around £1million) two years ago but failed to bring his wife, Lin, in on his luck in China
And rather than holding any lavish celebrations, he kept on living his life as if nothing had happened.
But he didn't keep the money to himself, transferring two million yuan (£242,000) to his sister, and another 700,000 (£85,000) to pay for his ex-wife's flat.
After discovering what Zhou had done, Lin filed for divorce, asking a court in China's Zhejiang province to split their property equally.
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The winning lottery ticket (Baidu)She also asked to be paid two-thirds of the 2.7million yuan (£326,900) that was hidden from her.
The court ruled in Lin's favour, finding that the money sent to the sister and ex constituted the couple's shared property.
It decided that Zhou had embezzled the cash and ordered him to pay the two thirds of hidden winnings as she had asked for.
The Hangzhou Daily reported that neither has appealed the court ruling.
China holds national lotteries but the winnings are taxed to go towards welfare and cultural programmes.
A similar incident happened last year when a man accepted his winnings wearing a mascot costume so his family wouldn't know.
In another case, a dad accepted his winnings in a mascot costume so his family wouldn't know (Guangxi Welfare Lottery Center)He told local media at the time: "I’m really happy I won, but I don’t want my family to know about this since they might become too arrogant and complacent in the future."
In the UK, a mum has claimed she's been left "out of pocket" after failing to receive her National Lottery winnings.
Gemma Murray has told how she used the app to play the lottery for herself and her mum, and struck lucky in October last year winning £30.
But Gemma, from Kirkby, says she's been left in limbo and is yet to receive the winnings.
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The mum-of-one said: "Every month when we get paid, me and my mum put the lottery on for the month. She won three numbers - £30 - so I withdrew it from the account and we were told we'd get it by November 2, but we still haven't had it.
"I've spoken to the lottery and they said the bank could trace it but the bank can't find any trace through any of my statements and National Lottery keep fobbing me off. They told me last Friday it must be there but the bank has no evidence of it."
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