A Different Way to Bankroll Your Gambling

Where do you go when you've received NZD 4 million ($5.5million) in error from a bank? Macau of course.

Leo Gao, 29 from New Zealand applied for a loan from Westpac bank of NZD100,000. The load was approved, and because of a bank decimal point error, NZD 10,000,000 was credited to Gao's account.

Instead of informing the bank of the error, Gao, a service station attendant, withdrew just under NZD 4 million and jumped ship with his girlfriend Kara Yang. The Bonnie and Clyde couple have since been the subject of a search by NZ police and the bank which is understandably eager to get its money back.

The search was aided somewhat by a Facebook post from Yang's younger sister boasting she was drinking beer with her sister in Asia.

Now the search has been narrowed further, with evidence that the on-the-run couple have made their way to Macau looking to do some damage with that big pile of cash burning a hole in their pockets.

Westpac have begun legal action at one of the Wynn casinos in Macau where a large chunk of the cash is believed to have ended up.