Abbas Shafii says he plans to travel, invest and share Powerball prize with non-profits ‘close to [his] heart’

What would you do if you won hundreds of millions of dollars playing the lottery? A 79-year-old man from Beaverton, Oregon, gets to answer that question after recently collecting a $328.5m Powerball jackpot drawn on 18 January.

Abbas Shafii issued a statement saying he plans to spend the third-largest such prize in his state’s history traveling, making investments and sharing his “good fortune with non-profit organizations that are close to [his] heart”.