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A Laotian immigrant living in Portland will share hundreds of millions of dollars after winning a lottery drawing. Forty-six-year-old Cheng Saephan said he will take half the prize, and give the rest to his friend. They bought tickets together. Saephan is a member of the Iu Mien, a group that fled persecution in Laos and Thailand after fighting alongside American troops during the Vietnam war.

But officials in the communist nation are rigging the lottery system, RFA’s Lao Service has learned. A source in the capital, Vientiane, says lottery results often display numbers that are impossible to purchase on purchased tickets or that are considered unlucky and rarely chosen. The number 509, for example, appeared only as a 5 in the October 14 lottery drawing, after ticket buyers tried to buy tickets with the number 09, the source said.