One day in July 2022, Antonio Miranda won a giant prize in a slot machine, but what came next was an unpleasant surprise.
Antonio Miranda He is 56 years old and lives in Luis Piedrabuena, Gallegos River. His mother had him when she was 16 and raised him and his siblings on her own. Antonio, for his part, has worked as a worker since he was 16, raised a family in Buenos Aires and settled in this Santa Cruz town to try to improve his life.
He July 7, 2022 It was cold, and Antonio, who had to make time to wait for some paperwork, decided play some pesos on the slot machine from the casino of the capital of Santa Cruz. He bet with the six thousand he had on hand, and in a moment some lights showed him the best news: he had won 100 million pesos.
“I’ll be back to take your details,” a local employee congratulated him, but the person in charge of the room appeared and told him that she was not going to pay him the prize because the machine had a fault. Puzzled, Antonio managed to ask a woman for a cell phone to take a photo of the machine where the prize was displayed. He returned to the place at the same time, where they did not give him any response.
A fortune squandered on slot machines
A fortune squandered on slot machines
What the prize winner did when he didn’t get paid
Given the lack of clarity, Antonio contacted the lawyer Gustavo Insaurraldeowner of a studio in Río Gallegos. “The issue was stagnant from the moment the casino did not respond further. So after the judicial fair we decided to file a lawsuit“, he explained to the media Red 43. He also stated that they were then offered a very small amount compared to what Antonio had earned.
In any case, Insaurralde does not predict a better offer from the casino, whose representatives indicate that it was an error in the machine, even though Antonio had won legitimately. “They know that if we go to court they will lose. But justice times are very long. And perhaps they speculate with that”Insaurralde added.
Now Antonio He doesn’t have a job, he suffered problems with his blood pressure and to make matters worse his stepfather died.. The icing on the cake of this sour dessert is the absence of the 100 million pesos that the man who was a millionaire for a day hopes to receive.
Source: Ambito
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