Lima - The firm that runs Peru's biggest lottery turned to the media Thursday in an effort to find a jackpot winner, who has not yet claimed a 12-million-sole (about 4-million-dollar) prize. The winner bought the ticket in the La Tinka lottery on Sunday for about 1 dollar at a pharmacist's store in the jungle town of Pucallpa. The shop assistant could not remember who bought it.
A spokesman for Intralot, the company that runs the lottery, noted that the millionaire has 180 days to claim the prize, the largest jackpot won by anyone in Peru in at least five years.
In a country with about 40 per cent of the population under the poverty line, a normal worker would have to save every penny of their income for around 400 years to get an amount as large as the jackpot.
