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| Abu Dhabi Duty Free Retail Development Manager Richard Issac (centre left) and General Manager Niveen Ibrahim (centre right) draw the winning Big Ticket for May |
UAE. Abu Dhabi Duty Free (ADDF) today announced the 15 winners of its Big Ticket raffle draw for May. The number of winners has increased from 10 to 15 to commemorate the 15th anniversary year of the raffle draw, which takes place monthly.
Nasr Kenan, a UAE-resident from Syria, won the first prize of AED1 million (US$272,000) having bought the ticket when travelling from Abu Dhabi to Cairo on a business trip.
Kenan, a buyer of the Big Ticket since its inception 15 years ago, is the coffee shop owner of Alfredo’s in Abu Dhabi Mall, and married with two children. Asked what he planned to do with the winnings, he said he will be using the money to further his business expansion in Egypt.
The second prize (AED100,000) down to the fifteenth prize (AED5,000) winners included a total of nine nationalities with around a third of winners having purchased their tickets online via ADDF’s website at www.addf.ae.
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