$1.5 billion US Mega Millions jackpot claimed in South Carolina

Lottery officials on Monday announced that a South Carolina resident had stepped forward to claim the $1.5bn Mega Millions jackpot from last October - the largest jackpot pay-out to a single winner in US history - but elected to remain anonymous.'I'm so excited, it's like I won it' - record PowerBall win is great for Cape Town store that sold jackpot ticket

"We are delighted that the winner is a South Carolinian and has come forward to claim this remarkable prize," said Hogan Brown, the Commission's Executive Director."We respect the winner's decision to remain anonymous, and we will honour the winner's wishes."The commission said the winner"marvels at how every decision made that day brought the winner to the store, at that very moment" to buy the winning ticket.

"It's exciting. Good for me, good for him, her, whoever it is," said Chirag Patel, owner of the convenience store. That's because Patel gets a $50 000 payment for selling the winning ticket - something he wouldn't have received if the prize went unclaimed. Some theorised that the winner was on the run from police and feared a background check if he or she won.

The winner had until April 19 to claim the prize. If it had gone unclaimed, the money would have gone back to the 44 states where the tickets were purchased.The prize being claimed does come with other benefits for the state besides the cachet of knowing a new multimillionaire is walking around somewhere.

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