For a man from Brazil, winning the lottery became a real ordeal, to such an extent that his millionaire prize took him to his grave.
It was in 2020 when a 50 year old man named Jonas Lucas Alves Dias won a lottery prize equivalent to $9 million dollars by hitting to the winning combination of the Mega-Sena draw, the national lottery game of his country.
Contrary to what most lottery prize winners do, Alves Dias chose to follow with the same lifestyle. He continued to live in the same house as his, with his family, in the small town of Hortolândia; He did not hire private security and continued to frequent the same places, so practically all his neighbors knew his movements and what he did with his money.
The only thing that this Brazilian lottery winner did change was to quit his job as a tool seller, he bought a farm in a city near his hometown, he he gave his childhood best friend a van and paid for his treatment to another who was sick with cancer.
According to the local press, Jonas was a simple, humble and good-hearted man, so that the only bad thing that happened to him in life was winning the lottery, since as a result of this he lived through hell.
The past 14 September, the police found Alves Dias seriously injured, inside a car, on a Sao Paulo highway. Although he was rushed to the hospital, he died a couple of hours later.
According to investigations by the authorities, On the day of the tragedy, the man left his house for a walk and never came back. Everything seems to indicate that, previously, he had been extorted and kidnapped for some 20 hours.
His captors they would have demanded the payment of some $600,14, which It has been confirmed by some audios obtained by a television channel in which the man is heard, somewhat desperate, asking the employee of a bank to approve him to make said transfer, a movement that the people of the bank refused to carry out considering that the amount of money was “unreal”.
The lines of investigation have led to 4 suspects of having committed the extortion that led to the death of this lottery winner; 2 of them have already been arrested. It is also known that the criminals withdrew about $4,14 from the victim’s account.
The Civil Police maintains that the fortune he earned in 2020 was what motivated the attack, for which an investigation has been opened for the crime of larceny (robbery followed by death), as well as extortion and homicide.
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