OREANDA-NEWS. April 16, 2013. It seems that a name "Pranciskus" brings luck this year - the Roman Catholic Church has elected the pope Pranciskus (Francis) and Siauliu bankas has draw the lots to find out  the winner of the  grand prize - 10 thousand litas - of  the time deposit campaign "Win the Chest of Golden Coins". The prize went to Pranciskus Demenis from Kaunas.

"After the call from the bank's representative I was thinking all weekend round if this news wasn't a joke or cheating. As far as I hadn't the prize in my hands  I didn't want to plan where I was going to use the winning. But now I'm sincerely grateful for such unexpected  stroke of luck, - says the grand prize winner P. Demenis. - We are planning to use these funds to repair our house".

Fortune has been favourable to Pranciskus - he said that over his life he had won a telephone, TV set, other household items as well as other smaller monetary prizes. The man of the honourable age told he has always been an economic man. Though he has  financially suffered from the banks’ collapse, he is still aware that the safest way to save is to place the deposit with the bank.
The prize fund of the five-month long campaign was accumulated from the bank's own funds - the increasing number of clients who placed the time deposits or extended their deposit agreements in litas and euros for the period longer than 6 months over the period of campaign led to the rapid increase of the prize fund.  The prize fund of 50 thou litas was accumulated in the very middle of the campaign.

The additional prizes of LTL 200 were granted to 200 depositors of Siauliu bankas all over Lithuania: to 14 depositors from Kaunas, Klaipeda, Siauliai, Vilnius, 10 depsoitors from Alytus, Palanga, Panevezys, Radviliskis and Utena, 6 - from Birzai, Druskininkai, Mazeikiai, Telsiai and Vilkaviskis, 5 - from Anyksciai, Birstonas, Kelme, Kursenai, Marijampole, Plunge, Taurage and Visaginas, and  4 - from Jonava, Kedainiai, Kupiskis, Rokiskis, Silute and Ukmerge.

The campaign "Win the Chest of golden coins" was launched by Siauliu bankas in 2011 for the first time and the grand prize went to the long-time depositor of Siauliu bankas residing in Siauliai region. In 2012 the prize of 10 thou litas was granted to the couple of seniors in Rokiskis region.