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Make It Digital Taster Nature Local Menu Search the BBC Search the BBC Search the BBC BBC News News navigation Sections Home Video hui "leo" gao World UK Business Tech Science Magazine Entertainment & Arts Health World kara hurring News TV In Pictures Also in the News Special Reports Explainers The Reporters Have Your Say Asia-Pacific leo gao and kara hurring Asia-Pacific Hong Kong arrests New Zealand $10m bank error fugitive 30 September 2011 From the section Asia-Pacific Share Share this with Email Share this with Email Facebook Share this
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ad Petrol station owner accidentally given £3.4million in bank error gets four years after going on the run and spending it Hui 'Leo' Gao bank accidentally deposits a ton of money spent millions of dollars from his account after a bank error gave him
If The Bank Makes A Mistake Can I Keep The Money
£3.4mDubbed the 'accidental millionaire'Along with girlfriend Kara Hurring, he fled from New Zealand to Hong KongAn international manhunt
Accidental Millionaire
was done to find themGao was jailed for four years and seven months todayHurring was sentenced to nine months home detention for her lesser role in the crime By Alex Ward http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-15129689 Published: 17:08 GMT, 24 August 2012 | Updated: 17:08 GMT, 24 August 2012 7 View comments A petrol station owner has been sentenced to four years and seven months in jail after going on the run when a bank error mistakenly transferred £3.4 million into his account.Dubbed the ‘accidental millionaire’, Hui ‘Leo’ Gao, 32, triggered an international manhunt after he fled http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2193145/Accidental-millionaire-given-3-4m-bank-error-caught-international-fugitive.html New Zealand with his girlfriend Kara Hurring, transferring the mistaken money into overseas bank accounts and spending it abroad.Hurring, 33, was sentenced to nine months of home detention for her role in the crime which was ‘significantly less’ and because she needed to look after the couple’s two children. 'Accidental millionaire': Hui 'Leo' Gao went on the run after transferring £3.4 million into overseas bank accounts when a bank error gave him access to the money Gao’s lawyer Ron Mansfield said his client could not resist the temptation of such a large amount of money.He said: ‘Your Honour, some say the greatest temptation was faced by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden but these are modern times for a man trying to keep the doors of his small business open, $10 million (£5.13 million) placed in his bank account was a very great temptation.’ RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 2 Next Now banks face probe into the millions lost by slip of a finger in online transfers 'My £7,000 just vanished': How a slip of a finger could cost your life sa
Anonymous Coward and and this is why you should disown your families - especially if they are uniquely stupid. 0 0 26 May 2009 Murray Pearson Use of a computer...? Um, wouldn't it be the BANK's use of the computer which gave them http://m.forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2009/05/26/nz_overdraft_fugitives/ access to the cash? Why isn't the bank facing charges in this case? Or, better yet, why aren't they being compelled to swallow the result of THEIR unilateral cockup? 0 0 26 May 2009 SuperTim "theft not appropriate"? So http://consumerist.com/2009/05/25/new-zealand-bank-error-fugitives-foiled-by-facebook-status-update/ if theft isn't an appropriate charge, then they haven't stolen anything? in which case, the use of a computer in transferring said not-stolen monies would also not be appropriate. Seems the NZ police have just admitted that they have bank accidentally no power to either claim the money or prosecute the "offenders" Whoops! 0 0 26 May 2009 Paul Sigh, does no-one have any brains these days? I'm impressed that they managed to get $3.8m out of the country, but obviously the brains don't run in the family. Undone by their own 21st century nepotism. I'm waiting for the first person to get done for murder after posting it on their FaceSpaceTwitBook. "Fred Blog is washing the blood off his bank accidentally deposits hands and disposing of the knife" It'll happen, I give it about five years. 0 0 26 May 2009 Anonymous Coward Interest As long as they keep up the interest payments shirley there's very little the authorities can do to them? The bank *gave* them a 10 million dollar overdraft so long as interest payments are maintained then they can't be committing a crime. 0 0 26 May 2009 Mick Gower Monopoly "Bank error in your favour collect £200." Take inflation into account and they have done no more than what is encouraged by the worlds most popular board game. 0 0 26 May 2009 Anonymous Coward RE: Use of a computer...? "Or, better yet, why aren't they being compelled to swallow the result of THEIR unilateral cockup?" If it was the result of an overdraft then the bank is able to claim the money back any time it wants. But I think that should make it a civil matter rather than a criminal one, though I don't know what the laws regarding this are in NZ. 0 0 26 May 2009 Anonymous Coward Three people can keep a secret... ... if two of them are dead. If you're doing a runner, you don't contact ANYONE you previously knew. Especially not someone likely to put "becoming a fugitive" as their Facebook status. Sheesh. 0 0 26 May 2009 Anonymous Coward I agree with t
zealand shares Tell a friend:Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to email (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) New Zealand Bank Error Fugitives Foiled By Facebook StatusUpdate By Laura Northrup@lnorthrup May 25, 2009 You know how it goes. You go out and have too many beers, then post a Facebook update with a bit too much information about your evening. Maybe you take it down once you sober up the next day, but not before the damage is done. Then, if you're Aroha Hurring of New Zealand, Interpol uses your status update to track down you, your sister, her boyfriend, and the millions of dollars his bank mistakenly deposited in his account. Last week, Consumerist brought you the story of the struggling gas station owners who were the recipients of a $10,000,000 NZD bank error, then wired the money out of the country and hadn't been heard from since. Rotorua service station owners Leo Gao and his girlfriend Cara Young fled New Zealand with about $NZ3 million after they discovered the money in their bank account. But their chances of being caught have increased after they were joined overseas by Ms Young's sister, Aroha Hurring, who posted details about their location on her Facebook page. Police believe the trio are in China after Ms Hurring foolishly updated her status to say she was drinking the local Asian beer and enjoying the heat. Saying that they've been "foiled" is perhaps a little hasty. They haven't been found yet, and things get a little bit more complicated seeing that New Zealand has no extradition treaty with Chin