Bank Worker Who Led Secret Life After $500,000 Heist Caught 25 Years Later
- Woman in China had plastic surgery, fled to another province
- She used funds from the theft to start a profitable company
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A Chinese woman who lived under a fake identity for 25 years after stealing more than half a million dollars from a bank and having plastic surgery to change her appearance has been caught.
Authorities in Yueqing, a city some 370 km (230 miles) south of Shanghai, revealed the details of the real-life film noir in a social media post this week, much to the amusement of internet users in the Asian nation.