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Supreme Court to PCSO: Pay P12-million Lotto winner with partially burned ticket

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Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News

<figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2823052" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><p>MANILA — The Supreme Court has ordered the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office to pay a man whose partially burned Lotto ticket won P12.391 million nearly a decade ago. </p><p>On October 2, 2014, Antonio Mendoza placed bets for the Lotto 6/42 draw and one of his three “lucky pick” combinations won. His winning ticket was crumpled by his daughter who ironed it in an attempt to save it.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/lifestyle/classified-odd/10/10/14/winning-lotto-ticket-burned-flat-iron">&#x27;Winning lotto ticket&#x27; burned by flat iron</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/regions/10/13/14/not-all-lost-man-burned-lotto-ticket">Not all lost for man with burned lotto ticket </a></li></ul><div> </div><p>“The PCSO rules itself reveals that the Lotto 6/42 does not contemplate a pre-determined winning ticket and so its presentation in a pristine state must not be the sole determinant for the payment of the prize,” the Supreme Court said in a decision promulgated on March 13, 2023. </p><p>The SC also said that its ruling in Pepsi-Cola Products Philippines vs Pagdanganan in the 1992 “Number Fever” contest and other related cases were not applicable to Mendoza&#x27;s case.</p><p>“In the Number Fever cases, the claimants were not entitled to the jackpot prize simply because the soft drink crowns that they held were not the pre-determined winning crowns,” the court said in the decision penned by Associate Justice Jhosep Lopez.</p><p>The SC also ordered the PCSO to pay legal interest of 6 percent per annum from the date of finality of the decision.</p>

The Supreme Court has ordered the PCSO to pay a man whose partially burned Lotto ticket won P12.391 million nearly a decade ago. 

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Supreme Court to PCSO: Pay P12-million Lotto winner with partially burned ticket

Adrian Ayalin,

ABS-CBN News

Published Sep 29, 2023 05:47 PM PHT

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Updated Sep 29, 2023 09:29 PM PHT

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