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Pinay jailed 3 months for money laundering

04 January 2025

This is the first money laundering sentence on a Filipino for 2025

The West Kowloon Court opened this year’s litigation of money laundering cases involving Filipinas with a comparatively light sentence for a domestic helper who admitted allowing her bank acccout to be used by criminals to clean their crime earnings.

Wendy Utleg, a 42 years old, was jailed for three months after she pleaded guilty Friday (Jan. 3) at West Kowloon to the charge of dealing with property known or believed to be proceeds of indictable offense, in violation of the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance.

PINDUTIN PARA SA DETALYE
A complaint filed by the Sham Shui Po Police last Nov. 20 said Utleg dealt with $280,592.59 between Feb. 4 and July 11, 2019 , “knowing or having reasonable grounds to believe that (the) property … in whole or in part, directly or indirectly represented any person’s proceeds of indictable offense.”

The comparatively light sentence handed down by Acting Principal Magistrate Cheng Lim-chi was based on the fact that the amount of crime money that passed through Utleg’s Hang Seng Bank account was small, compared to previous cases.

PINDUTIN DITO

Last year saw long jail sentences meted on Filipinas, one of which reached two years.

Last Dec. 12, the Department of Justice announced that it would seek to get higher sentences for money laundering, in line with new sentencing guidelines set by the Court of Appeal.

Basahin ang detalye!

The new guidelines were set by the CA as a result of the growing prevalence of money laundering cases in the community.

The gravity of the sentence will depend on the amount involved, and could be mitigated if the accused pleads guilty to the offence.

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