COUPLE PROFIT FROM $10 MILLION BANK "ERROR" - HUNT ON!

YOU WONT BELIEVE THIS ONE:

A couple who own a local service station rips off one of Australasia’s largest banks to the tune of $10 million. Then………they vanish!!!

It’s a bit like “Where’s Wally?” except its Where’s …….and……….?”

Yes, hard to believe but so very true.

It seems that the Westpac Bank made an error by depositing the 10 mill. into their account and the couple took advantage of this “error” and helped them too lots of the lovely loot. About $6,000,000 if the rumours are true.

They took off in such a hurry that they didn’t even shut the front door s of the service station or turn of the lights. They were like “Seeya”.

BP has been in with the tankers emptying out the petrol tanks etc and has taken to the petrol pumps with jack-hammers to remove them. All that is left is an empty petrol station surrounded by industrial fencing which has just been put up and a couple of lonely trailers.

Right now we all hate banks, right? After all these are the guys who have succeeded in losing several countries' fortunes without really trying.

There will surely be a lot of people who are quietly thinking to themselves what goes around comes around.

But, at the end of day theft is theft. The money in that bank includes the finances of many small business people in Rotorua, many of them forestry contractors and suppliers.

When credit is so hard to obtain and people are working all the hours under the sun to try and survive and not have to lay off staff it must make it very hard to swallow for a lot of people.