I won £167 million jackpot on EuroMillions but donated nearly all of it to charity – I want to save the world

A EUROMILLIONS winner who scored the £167million jackpot has donated nearly all of the cash to charity. The lucky punter bagged the second-largest ever amount in the French draw then pumped it into “saving the world”. EuromillionsA EuroMillions winner known only as Guy has donated almost all of his winnings to charity[/caption] The ticketholder, a French citizen known only as Guy, struck gold in December 2020 before revealing he planned to donate some of his €200m to hospitals. But now, he has told how he has spent the rest of the money of setting up an environmental foundation called Anyama. Guy told Le Parisien he wished to remain anonymous, but that his goal was to “save the planet”. He said: “I have transferred the majority of my winnings and will progressively give the near totality of it to the foundation. READ MORE ON THE LOTTERY 'ECSTATIC' I won £300k jackpot - I only wish my husband was here to enjoy our new fortune HOME ROW My family won £33m on lotto - I want to build a mega mansion but neighbours object “From my point of view, the priority today is saving the planet.” However, he said he doesn’t “want to be known” but rather to “continue to live peacefully in complete discretion”. According to The Connexion, Guy said at the time of his win: “Seeing the happy people around me is the greatest reward. “When the money falls from the sky, something must be done with it to help those who are not so lucky. Most read in The Sun PUT A BLING ON IT Brooklyn marries billionaire heiress in celeb-packed wedding of decade GRAND NATIONAL 50/1 Noble Yeats WINS for Sam Waley-Cohen's final ride in Aintree shocker GUNNERS GO MAD Arsenal and Tottenham set for £60m summer scrap for Leicester's Maddison BREAKING POINT Starving shoppers loot supermarket amid world's strictest Covid lockdown CUT AND BYE Fury forced into late change with cutman 'Stitch' Duran absent for Whyte fight WEAPONS OF WAR UK sends missiles to blitz Putin's sea fleet as Boris visits 'lion' Zelensky “Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense.” He also told how he only played EuroMillions during large jackpots “for one purpose” – “to devote most of the sum to the creation of this foundation”. Isabelle Cesari, of the Francaise des Jeux – the operator of France’s National Lottery games – said: “We have never seen an initiative of this size, but there again, we have rarely seen such high winnings. “Often, these things go hand-in-hand.” Anyama is named after an Ivory Coast city where Guy reportedly spent a lot of time as a child. Its website states: “Because nature and man are one and their vulnerabilities force us to act, the Anyama endowment fund has made it its mission to protect the living.” Guy – who will only speak to the media by email – said: “Over the course of my life, I have witnessed, in the Ivory Coast, the incessant transportation by lorries of trees cut down in Burkina Faso, previously known as Upper Volta. “This ballet of lorries left a strong impression on me. “We must act. It is an absolute emergency. If nothing is done in this regard, all other actions will be in vain. We will no longer exist.” No data found Guy won the lottery with the numbers 6, 9, 13, 24 and 41, and lucky stars 3 and 12. At the time, it was the highest-ever jackpot in France, but a year late one lucky winner scooped £184m.