Vietnam announces winner of American-style jackpot of $10.8mn

Vietnam’s state-run lottery company Vietlott announced on Saturday the winner of the American-style Power 6/55 jackpot, which is worth nearly VND257 billion (US$10.8 million), the second highest-ever jackpot prize in Vietnam. The winner is a Mobifone mobile network user, who owns the fortunate ticket bearing the series 13-24-39-43-45-52. The winner will receive more than VND231 billion ($9.7 million) after paying VND25.9 billion ($1.1 million) in personal income tax in accordance with regulations. There have been 402 winners of jackpot prizes with the highest-ever prize of about VND303 billion ($12.8 million) given to a man in Hanoi in 2018. After only two years, the app has seen nearly one million users in Vietnam.