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The SUN
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| Irate customers swarmed Peya's office in Central in Dec 2018 after failing to board their flights |
Hong Kong HK Police say they are just
waiting for the government accountant’s report on the Peya Travel ticketing
fiasco before deciding on how to proceed with the case.
“About Peya,
we’re still waiting for the (government) accountant to furnish the accountant’s
report as requested by the advising counsel,” a police investigator from the Regional
Crime Unit said in an SMS message to Consul Paul Saret, who updated The SUN on
the case on May 9.
The officer also said the police have wrapped up
its investigation into the case, which blew up in December 2017 when hundreds
of Peya customers heading home for their Christmas vacation failed to board
their flights because the travel agency did not pay the airlines for their
tickets.
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Earlier, the police
also completed its investigation into the alleged fraud committed by employment
agency owner Ester Ylagan in which hundreds of Filipino jobseekers were duped
into paying between $10,000 and $15,000 for non-existent jobs in Britain and
Canada.
The case against
Ylagan is now with the Department of Justice, which will determine whether a
case should be filed against her for fraud.
“All remittance
records have been collected and the duplicated files have been submitted to the
Justice Department. The case is now with the Justice Department seeking for
legal advice,” the officer said.
Saret said the
remittance records pertain to where Ylagan had sent the estimated $4 million
that she collected in January to May in 2016 from about 500 job applicants,
using her two companies: Emry’s Service Staff and Employment Agency, and Mike’s
Secretarial Services.
But Saret said Ylagan’s
alleged fraud toward her applicants is separate from the conspiracy to defraud
and money laundering cases against Ylagan and suspended barrister Ody Lai Pui-ying
that appeared to have arisen from the job scam.
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Ylagan, who was arrested on Jun 7
last year, a few months after returning to Hong Kong from the Philippines, is
also facing several cases of overcharging the job applicants which were filed
by the Labour Department.
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Lai was arrested at the Hong Kong
International Airport on Aug 30 last year as she returned also from the
Philippines.
Meanwhile, Saret said the case
against Peya should also move forward once the government accountant submits his
report on the travel agency’s financial activities before the booking scandal
forced it to shut down.
Police arrested Rhea Donna Boyce
or “Yanyan”, co-owner of Peya Travel, on Christmas Day last year in her Wanchai
flat on suspicion of conspiring to defraud the company’s stranded clients.
Her Australian husband and Peya
co-owner Peter Boyce was arrested afterwards but was eventually cleared.
A co-accused, Peya’s sales and
marketing manager Arnold Grospe, was arrested on Jun 6 last year.
Ylagan, Lai, Yanyan Boyce and
Grospe are all out on police bail.
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