WELLINGTON, May 21 (Xinhua) -- The New Zealand police were hunting a couple who were thought to have fled with millions of dollars after a banking error, New Zealand media reported on Thursday.
The couple, who ran a service station in the North Island city of Rotorua, are understood to have applied to Westpac Bank for a 10,000 NZ dollar (6,000 U.S. dollars) overdraft and mistakenly had10 million NZ dollars paid into their account.
Police said that some of the money had been withdrawn.
The bank account owners had since disappeared and the Interpol had been called in to help find them.
Police were currently conducting an investigation into the individuals that may have been involved in the withdrawal of that sum of money.
The service station has since closed its doors after going intoreceivership.
The Westpac said court action had begun to recover the money but refused to comment further.
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