Hunt continues for Perth’s MASSIVE lotto winner

The hunt continues for Western Australia’s newest millionaire a day and half after the thriller ticket holder scooped Thursday night time’s $40 million Powerball jackpot.

Lotterywest says it’s nonetheless ready to listen to from the ticket holder who gained your entire division one prize pool.

A spokesperson for Lotterywest confirmed on Saturday morning that nobody has come ahead to assert the life-changing prize.

It is known the successful ticket was offered in Perth’s metropolitan space, which guidelines out Kalgoorlie who has just lately had an enormous successful streak.

The hunt to seek out the winner has change into tougher with the ticket was not registered on the Lotterywest Player’s Registration Service.

It is known the winner is a single ticket-holder, somewhat than a syndicate.

The winner has 12 months to assert their prize which must be collected from Lottery West’s head workplace in Subiaco.

As consistent with the foundations, unclaimed prizes are returned to the WA neighborhood by means of Lotterywest grants.

City News Kalgoorlie homeowners Tania and Kevin Parkes (with their canine Dozer) after promoting the successful tickets for a $120 million Powerball. Credit: Carwyn Monck/Kalgoorlie Miner/Kalgoorlie Miner

Last March, Lotterywest put a name out for 30 Kalgoorlie ticketholders to return ahead after they failed to assert their share in a historic $120 million win.

The native successful ticket was a City News Kalgoorlie syndicate of 250 folks, with every of the fortunate winners scoring $261,986.

The $63 million prize went unclaimed for greater than 20 days. A authorized battle erupted over the huge win after the newsagency accused a person of falsely claiming greater than his share.

Boulder Newsagency and Lotto proprietor Michael Saville was delighted that his retailer had produced a winner. Credit: Carwyn Monck/Kalgoorlie Miner/RegionalHUB

In December 2021, Lotterywest that WA had over $25 million in unclaimed prizes.

At that point, the biggest unclaimed ticket in that 12-month interval was $613,000 which was offered at Willetton Newsagency in Riverton in April 2020.

So far this 12 months, 4 West Aussies have gained Set for Life with a handful of gamers successful over one million {dollars} and several other successful tons of of hundreds.

WA’s lotto luck began with the New Year’s Eve draw, with a winner being introduced each week.

Source: www.perthnow.com.au

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