”Accidental millionaires” Kara Hurring and her partner Hui “Leo” Gao fled to China after Westpac Bank mistakenly deposited a NZ$10m ($7.5m, £4.65m) overdraft facility into his account in 2009.
Hurring was arrested after returning to New Zealand in February 2011. Mr Gao, who faces similar charges, was extradited from Hong Kong last year. The date for his trial has not been set. Hurring was convicted in a Rotorua court after a four-day trial and is due to be sentenced in August.
In 2009, Mr Gao had asked the bank for a NZ$100,000 overdraft to help support his struggling garage. The bank found out about the error days after transferring the millions into Mr Gao’s business account.
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