International Man Hunt 101

A man nicknamed the "runaway millionaire" has been bailed to an Auckland address.

Leo Gao, 31, allegedly fled to China after $10 million was mistakenly deposited into his Westpac bank account in 2009.

He applied for electronically-monitored bail at the High Court at Auckland today.

Justice Murray Gilbert granted Gao bail to an Avondale address, with a number of conditions including a 24-hour curfew.

Details of the legal arguments were suppressed by the Court.

Gao was arrested crossing from China to Hong Kong in September, after a two-and-a-half year investigation into the alleged theft.

He is to face 16 charges of theft and two of money laundering.

A Westpac employee deposited $10 million into his account in April 2009, rather than the $100,000 he applied for.

The overdraft was to be used to keep his Rotorua service station afloat.

Gao allegedly transferred almost $6.8m of the cash into several accounts and skipped the country, followed by this partner Kara Hurring.

Following an international man-hunt, Geo was arrested and returned to New Zealand in December.

Hurring was arrested when she re-entered New Zealand in February last year.

She has been charged with 28 counts of theft, two counts of money laundering and two counts of attempting to use a document, in Auckland, Macau and Hong Kong.

Gao is not allowed to associated with the co-accussed, Hurring.

Almost $3.8 million of the missing money was still outstanding.

Defence lawyer Ron Mansfield represented Gao, who was excused from appearing at the High Court bail hearing today.

Under electronic monitoring an alarm would sound if Gao left his proposed bail address without warning authorities.

A family friend of Gao put her house up for security on his bail.

The prosecution lawyer opposed bail.

First of all, Leo didn't steal the money, the bank screwed up and put it in his account.  Case dismissed.  Trust me, if some bank employee decides to deposit $10 million in my account, I am gone so fast it would make your head spin.  Step one, take out suit cases full of cash.  Step two, deposit the rest into accounts that the US Government can't touch.  Step three, flee to a country with extradition to the US.  Step four, ball like a mutha f*cka.  I mean ball so hard ma f*ckas wanna find me, but first they gotta find me.

Let's take a look at the countries without extradition to the US, shall we?

Bhutan 
Botswana 
Brunei 
Burkina Faso 
Burundi 
Cambodia 
Cameroon 
Cape Verde 
Central African Republic 
Chad 
China 
Comoros 
Djibouti 
Equatorial Guinea 
Ethiopia 
Gabon 
Guinea 
Guinea Bissau 
Indonesia 
Iran 
Ivory Coast 
Jordan 
Kuwait 
Laos 
Lebanon 
Libya 
Madagascar 
Mali 
Maldives 
Mauritania 
Mongolia 
Morocco 
Mozambique 
Nepal 
Niger 
Oman 
Qatar 
Russia 
Rwanda 
Samoa 
Sao Tome e Principe 
Saudi Arabia 
Senegal 
Somalia 
Sudan 
Syria 
Togo 
Tunisia 
Uganda 
United Arab Emirates 
Vanuatu 
Vietnam 
Yemen 
Yemen South 
Zaire

OK, let's be honest, that's a tough list right there.  China could be good because at least they have some very international and cosmopolitan cities.  Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE could probably be pretty good, I'll scout them when I go for work in April.

Um, Maldives looks kind of OK:

So, there you have it.  If I find $10M in bank account, come visit me in Maldives, because I ain't making the same mistake as Leo and trying to cross boarders.

Go to the 40 second mark where the hotness begins.  Ballin' like crazy at Papa Gino's...

-Big Ran