Brothers Claimed Winning the Lottery After 6 Years

The New York Lottery announced surprising news on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 about two brothers winning $5 million jackpot in New York Lottery 6 years ago. These two brothers claimed their prize on March 1, 2012, only 11 days before the prize would have been expired. The officials at the New York Lottery said that it took them 7 months, from March to October, to study this unusual case before announcing these two winners because they are afraid that this might be fraud considering the long period taken by the brothers to claim the prize.

According to these winners, Andy N.Ashkar and Nayel N. Askar, they had known their winning since the day the lottery was announced but they did not want to claim it immediately because they are afraid that they are not ready with the consequences of their winning. They bought the tickets from their parents’ shop and as they were planning an engagement and wedding of one of the boys.

Now after 6 years these two brothers said that they are now ready to take the consequences of the winning. They have already planned big things with the money and they also said that the whole family, especially their mother is giving great support to them.