Mon, 25 May 2009 12:00a.m.
Chris Gallavin says extradition from China is not necessarily straight-forward
Fugitive Aroha Hurring is back in the country. She was filmed having a nervous cigarette at Auckland airport this afternoon, after returning of her own free will on a flight from Hong Kong.
She is the sister of Kara Hurring, one half of the Rotorua couple who were mistakenly given a ten million dollar overdraft by Westpac bank.
The clerical error was all down to one missed decimal point.
But despite Aroha’s return, its Kara and her partner Leo Gao who have the money.
They are believed to be in Hong Kong or Macau, or possibly now a large city in mainland China.
If they do not come back of their own volition, what can be done to bring them back?
Campbell LIVE talked to Chris Gallavin, a senior lecturer at Canterbury University and an international law expert, about how extradition from China is not necessarily a simple matter.