To Resolve This Puzzle:
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The cache is located at:
S 38° 0A . B C D
E 176° 1C . E E F
S _3_ _8_° _0_ ___ . ___ ___ ___
E _1_ _7_ _6_° _1_ ___ . ___ ___ ___
Using the published coordinates as a start point:
(but there is no requirement to physically visit.)
Questions:
- Normally, time off for good playing is expected. What would (A) be if the male player had (just) his years prison term doubled for bad playing?
- What is the last digit of the year that both 'players' were arrested? (B)
- Rounded up to the nearest Million, how much money is still missing? (C)
- The male player was sentenced to 4 years and (D) months in prison.
- What was the collective American term for the primary products sold here? (E) = Number of letters in this word x 3.
- What Month (number), in 2012, was the female player found guilty? (F)
In June 2012, a former Rotorua BP service station (at the given coordinates) owner turned international fugitive, was sentenced to four years and seven months in prison after stealing millions of dollars accidentally deposited into his bank account. In April 2009, he had applied for a $100,000.00 overdraft but a keying error resulted in a $10,000,000 overdraft instead.
Like Geocaching, those decimal places are oh, so important...
A flatmate overheard him yelling "f***ing rich ..." He then transferred a total of $6.78 million from his business account to personal accounts in his name and those of his parents. Some went through remittance companies to accounts in China and Hong Kong. He also transferred more than $347,000 to casino accounts in Macau before fleeing New Zealand. After an international manhunt, including the resources of Interpol, he was arrested in Hong Kong in September 2011, and extradited to New Zealand in December that year.
His de-facto partner and the mother of his child, followed days later after using Gao's bank card in Auckland to make purchases and withdrawals, including accommodation, clothes and the now classic "
Big Mac combo, a Happy Meal and no apple pie".
She also opened a "player's account" at a casino in Macau with her passport and was later investigated there, but not charged, for money laundering. Two deposits were made totalling more than $340,000, money that could be converted into chips for gambling or to pay for services, including accommodation and food.
Difficulties travelling with her child resulted in her contacting NZ Police and returning in February 2011 to renew her daughter's passport. In May 2012, she was found guilty of 28 counts of theft and two counts of money laundering, according to court records. Reparation at $70 a week was ordered on $11,830 and nine months home detention imposed.
There is still more than $3.8M outstanding and the bank, as it has always done, is "continuing to dedicate considerable resource to recovering the stolen money".
CNN has a news story on this,
as does the Daily Post.
*** Cache contains Log Sheet Only - Bring Your Own Pen. Thanks. ***
The cache utilises urban camouflage. It is what it isn't. Teamwork may be required to identify, extract, then replace the cache. The GZ is in plain sight but so are you - and there are literally hundreds of people passing here per day. And cars parked, all drivers staring at you. The Difficulty rating reflects this (the puzzle itself is easy).
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
Added 20 May 2016