Christine Jia Xin Lee's lawyer says this shows the need for banks to be more careful with their account management system.
According to the Brisbane Times, the office of the director of public prosecutions confirmed the charges against Christine Jia Xin Lee had been withdrawn on Monday.
Lee’s lawyer, Hugo Aston, said in the report that she was “obviously very relieved that all this trauma is over for her”.
He also told Fairfax Media that Lee’s case demonstrated the need for banks to be more careful with their account management system.
Lee, 21, allegedly made numerous withdrawals from her Westpac account amounting to some A$4.6 million between July 2014 and April 2015.
This was after the bank accidentally gave her an unlimited overdraft in August 2012.
She was said to have spent the money on designer handbags, diamond necklaces, earrings and rings, clothes, shoes and even cushions.
Lee, who was studying at Sydney University at the time, claimed she believed the money had come from her parents whom she said were wealthy.
Her spending frenzy came to an abrupt end on April 8 last year, when Westpac’s senior manager of group investigations, Matt Tregoning, froze her account after the bank’s glitch was detected.
The following month, Australian authorities arrested Lee when she attempted to fly back to Malaysia.
Last December, she was charged with dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception, and knowingly dealing with the proceeds of crime at the Downing Centre Court in Sydney.
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, Lee returned some A$1 million worth of items in April 2016.
In May, the Supreme Court made orders allowing Westpac to seize any other assets to repay the remaining A$3.5 million.
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