September 2, 2010
Woman baffled by 10 billion kronor banking mistake
Published: 25 Feb 09 07:17 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/17810/20090225/
A woman from Gothenburg couldn’t believe her eyes when she discovered a 10 billion kronor ($1.13 billion) deposit in her bank account.
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"The balance was more than 10 billion kronor. It said the amount had been deposited as a correction for a credit card purchase," Johansson's boyfriend Daniel Höglund told the daily.
“Something must have gone totally wrong. We waited anxiously for whoever sent the 10 billion to come forward.”
On Tuesday morning, the money was still credited to her account, but a few hours later it was gone, as mysteriously as it had arrived.
A press spokeswoman for Nordea bank, the largest bank in the Nordic region, later explained the mystery as "a technical mistake made by a company."
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