Indian to share $1m raffle prize with 4 colleagues

An Indian expat, who won the $1 million Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire raffle,  will share the prize money with four of his colleagues who jointly bought the lucky ticket.

Rajiv Narayanan Nair, 39-year-old senior planner at Dubai Airports, was thrilled that his luck favoured him and his friends.

“This is sheer luck and I am thankful to God … I am happy that my luck favoured me and my friends … I am happy for them also,” Nair told Gulf News.

However, he preferred not to share the details of his colleagues who pooled money to buy the lucky ticket No. 0999 in Series 233.

A resident of Dubai since 2003, Nair said he had bought DDF raffle tickets four or five times. “I had bought it once or twice before joining Dubai Airports in 2011.”