Expat buys three tickets, wins $1m

To better his odds of winning the jackpot, Nidal Marwan Taha purchased three tickets worth Dh3,000 for a multi-milliondirham raffle draw in Dubai recently.

And sure enough, the expatriate from Jordan yesterday was named the winner of the $1 million (Dh3.6 million) top prize from Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire draw.

Taha has been buying tickets for the raffle promotion for years. Whenever he travels, he finds the time to buy one, and during his last purchase, he decided to pay for three.

“I always had a gut feeling that I would win one day and I am thrilled that finally my perseverance has paid off,” Taha said after he was contacted by the raffle draw organisers.

Taha, a 48-yearold Jordanian living in Dubai, became the latest $1 million winner in the Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire Promotion in Series 287 with ticket number 4999.

Taha, a resident of Dubai for 28 years, is the owner and president of a cyber security company in Dubai, Z Services.