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For allowing her two bank accounts to be used for money laundering, a Filipina domestic helper will spend two years in jail, in one of the harshest penalties to be imposed for such a crime.
Jereza Baylon, 42 years old, was meted the penalty at Tuen
Mun Court today after she pleaded gultty to two charges of dealing with
property known or believed to represent proceeds of indictable offense, a violation
of the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance.
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Baylon pleaded guilty to handling $1,352,305 of crime
proceeds that flowed in and out of her Hang Seng Bank ATM account between July
31 and Aug. 29, 2023.
She also pleaded guilty to handling $788,470 of crime money deposited and withdrawn from
her CITIC Bank account between July 5 and July 20, 2023.
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Acting Principal Magistrate Daniel Tang sentenced her to 18
month imprisonment for the first charge, and 12 months for the second charge,
However, he ordered that half of the second sentence be
served at the same time as the first sentence, resulting in a total sentence of
24 months.
This is the most severe penalty ever imposed on a FDH convicted of money laundering in Hong Kong so far.
The only Filipina to beat the record was a resident, Ester Ylagan, former proprietor of Emry's employment agency, who was jailed for 32 months in February this year for laundering $5.7 million which she collected by offering non-existent jobs in Canada to Filipinos.
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