Couple flee New Zealand with €4m after bank blunder

A COUPLE whose New Zealand bank accidentally gave them £3.86 million (€4.38m) have managed to flee the country with more than a third of the cash, it emerged.

An international search is under way for the businessman and his girlfriend, who are believed to be in Hong Kong or China.

Leo Gao, Kara Yang and her seven-year-old daughter, Leena, ran a petrol station in the North Island tourist town of Rotorua which had recently gone bankrupt.