What would you do if you noticed the bank made an error and accidentally deposited $10 million into your bank account? Would you have the integrity to notify them of the error? Would you expect they might notice such an error?

This actually happened to a New Zealand woman and her Chinese boyfriend. What did she decide to do? She hauled off to Hong Kong and tried to disappear!

One problem – she has an 8-year-old daughter.

Kara Mary-Jo Hurring, 32, who fled to Hong Kong after $10 million was mistakenly deposited in her Chinese boyfriend's Westpac bank account, finally returned to New Zealand last year and was arrested in December on 32 charges of money-laundering and theft totaling about $6.8 million.

Hurring's boyfriend, Leo Gao, a former service station owner, is still being hunted by police.

The early allegations are that Hurring and Gao transferred $6.782 million of the wrongly deposited $10m to other accounts before leaving New Zealand separately for Hong Kong in April and May 2009. The banking error, caused when a teller added two extra zeroes to a $100,000 overdraft application.

The bank recovered about half of the money, leaving an outstanding sum of $3.872 million.

Hurring spent 22 months on the run in China with Gao before returning to New Zealand.

She also faces 26 counts of theft and two of attempting to use a document. The thefts are alleged to have been committed in Auckland and relate to amounts ranging from $14 to $1573.

I would hope that you would have acted differently. If you want to learn more about how to prevent theft, consider an 8 hour theft class.