A petrol station owner in Auckland, New Zealand, asked his bank for a NZD100,000 overdraft. The bank agreed, and mistakenly gave him a credit line of NZD10 million. The petrol station owner and his partner disappeared with NZD6.7 million, reports the New Zealand Herald. Interpol has been searching for the couple in Hong Kong, according to New Zealand media sources, but the country’s police believe they may have split up, after speaking to a sister of the fugitive woman.
Posted by Sean Ecker on 26 May 2009 at 10:25 | permalink
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News story, GenevaLunch, 26 May 2009.
Filed under: World news
Tags: Interpol, millionaires, New Zealand, overdraft
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