Sign up to The Irish Times Archive (1859 - 2008)My Account »

Fri 05 May 2009Search launched for NZ couple who came into money

An international search was under way today for a New Zealand couple who fled with a fortune after a bank accidentally put £3.86 million in their account.

The couple, who have not been named, ran a petrol station in the Northern Island tourist resort of Rotorua.