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| Biscocho and Embrahim appeared in District Court, where their cases are likely to be tried |
A Filipina staff who is accused along with her Hong Kong employer in a recruitment agency of conning
several jobseekers made their first appearance in the District Court in Wanchai
this morning, Jul 9.
Marijane Biscocho, 42, and her boss Lennis Ebrahim, 56, were
supposed to enter their plea but this did not happen as the prosecutor said the
charges against the two would be amended anew.
Biscocho’s counsel informed the court that legal aid had
been granted to his client, and asked for an adjournment for further legal
advice.
Biscocho was remanded in custody, while Ebrahim’s bail was
extended.
The two are charged with money laundering and 19 counts of applying
a false trade description when they offered allegedly non-existent jobs in Hong
Kong and Macau to a number of Filipino
jobseekers who each paid between $3,000 and $10,000.
They are accused of depositing $127,000 in a Hang Seng Bank account
and $510,500 in a HSBC account between 2018 and 2019, the sums being proceeds
from an illegal act.
Biscocho is also charged with breaching her condition of
stay by working for Ebrahim’s WHT Consulting Company in Kwun Tong between Oct
1, 2018 and Sept 17 last year.
