Another Filipina domestic helper was sent to jail today for allowing her bank account to be used in money laundering, the latest in the growing number of Filipina domestic helpers getting ensnared in the crime.
Asteria Pinili, 41 years old and DH in Hong Kong since 2019, pleaded guilty in Eastern
Court to dealing with crime money, and was sentenced by Principal Magistrate Don
So to eight months in prison.
In a complaint filed by police last July 30, Pinili was
charged with dealing with $641,086 of “any person’s proceeds of an indictable
offense” through 16 deposits into her Mox Bank account from 7 to 21 June last
year.
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In another case today, Magistrate So rejected an offer of $20,000
in cash, in a bail review for another Filipina domestic helper charged with money laundering.
Instead, he remanded Charity Joy Paculio, 45 years old, in
jail custody and set another bail review for Nov. 26.
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He also affirmed the case’s adjournment to Jan. 28, which had been set earlier to finalize its transfer to the District Court.
Paculio is accused of dealing with proceeds of crime in her Standard Chartered Bank account, for deposits and withdrawals between 22nd and 28th of February in 2023, which totalled $2,751,387.98.
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