Woman Arrested at the Airport After Trying to Flee with $4.6m Wrongly Transferred to Her Account (Photo)

 

A 21-year-old woman who was arrested at Sydney Airport trying to flee the country allegedly spent millions on handbags and luxury goods after $4.6 million was mistakenly transferred into her bank account four years ago.

 

According to MailOnline, the money was mistakenly transferred into Christine Jiaxin Lee's Westpac bank account as an overdraft four years ago when she was just 17.

 

The chemical engineering student decided to run away with the money to Malaysia when she was picked up by Australian Federal Police at Sydney Airport on Wednesday night, still allegedly owes $3.3 million to her bank.

 

After she got alert, she went on a spending spree, buying luxury items.

 

She was dragged to Waverley Local Court on Thursday after being charged with dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception and knowingly dealing with the proceeds of crime.

 

Court documents revealed she is alleged to have committed the offences on multiple occasions between July 2014 and March 2015. The woman has been accused of failing to notify the bank that she was not entitled to the money.

 

According to police, she hurriedly obtained an emergency Malaysian passport in order to leave the country after realizing that police was after her. But she claimed to have obtained the emergency passport because she had lost her original one, will not be allowed to enter any international airport or port and has to report to police twice daily.

 

She was granted bail for $1,000 and faces strict bail conditions, with Magistrate Lisa Stapleton agreeing with the prosecution that her attempts to flee Australia meant that she posed a flight risk.

 

She is also not allowed to apply for another passport. She has lived in Australia for five years with her boyfriend at Rhodes in Sydney's north-west.

 

She is three years through a four-year chemical engineering degree but has deferred her final year.

 

The woman is due to appear at Downing Centre Local court on June 21.