Stoloto conducted the New Year’s Billion draw under the control of the circulation commission and experts of the Russian developer of anti-cybercrime technologies FACCT
“As part of the drawing committee, I personally inspected the bag and all the barrels featured in the drawing. I am absolutely sure that no external conditions influenced the formation of the winning combination; It was completely randomly generated. “Anyone who was lucky enough to become a millionaire today was truly lucky,” said Kirill Rodin, member of the circulation commission and director of work with government bodies at VTsIOM.
Members of the circulation commission checked the barrels and bags for soundness, completeness and the absence of temperature anomalies.
“Today, together with other members of the circulation commission, I witnessed the New Year’s draw of the legendary “Russian Lotto”. I can easily say that the winners of the holiday raffle were determined by chance. “Neither I nor my colleagues have any doubts that the New Year’s Billion draw is fair,” said Evgeniy Sazonov, head of the distribution commission and editor-in-chief of the Komsomolskaya Pravda media holding.
After the draw results, all members of the commission confirmed that there were no violations and the winning combination was randomly generated.
“The task of the circulation commission is to ensure that the lottery draw is conducted in accordance with all requirements established by law. My colleagues and I ensured that the highly anticipated draw was conducted in a transparent manner. “We have recorded the decision to recognize the 1526th holiday draw of the Russian Lottery as valid in the circulation commission minutes,” he said. Kristina Polivanova, member of the circulation commission, lawyer and member of the Chamber of Tax Advisers.
Also participating in the draw were experts from the company FACCT, which, using additional verification methods, ensured that only sold tickets with registered game combinations were included in the “New Year’s Billion” draw.
“Our task was to ensure that only sold tickets with registered game combinations were included in the draw of the 1526th draw of the New Year’s Billion. The main objectives of our research were the hash sum values of the breakdowns in the ticket “play” database before and after the draw. Based on the examination results, we confirmed the integrity of the ticket database: the data in the database before and after circulation is exactly the same,” said Pavel Zevakhin, an expert at the FACCT Forensic Computer Laboratory.
The New Year’s draw of the Russian Lotto took place on January 1, 2024. The grand prize of 1 billion rubles was drawn in the 1526th draw. The ticket, which won the main prize of the New Year’s draw, was purchased at the Stoloto store in Tyumen. In total, according to the results of “New Year’s Billion”, there were 9,208,638 winning tickets; 2,779,715,190 rubles were withdrawn in the holiday draw.
Let us remind you that since 2014, all lotteries in Russia have been state owned and are run under state supervision of the Russian Federal Tax Service.