Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:00a.m.
Westpac Bank is remaining tight lipped over a meeting rumoured to be held this week, with the worker responsible for a ten million dollar blunder.
In early May Leo Gao was mistakenly credited the millions, after a staff member missed a decimal point while setting up a $100,000 overdraft.
Gao and his girlfriend Kara Hurring have since fled to China with $3.8 million, where authorities have been unable to locate them.
The Sunday Star Times is reporting the worker who made the bungle is expecting to lose her job at a meeting in Christchurch this week.
She had been on stress leave as a result of the incident, but had since returned to work.
A source told the newspaper that the bank was essentially “hanging her out to dry” for the mistake, despite the woman having more than 30 years of banking experience.
Mistakes like it happened all the time in the banking industry and systems should have been in place, the source said.
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