Two of three Filipinas who appeared in separate courts today, charged with money laundering, were returned to jail after their cases were adjourned.
At the District Court, Charity Joy Paculio was returned to detention by Judge C.P. Pang after he adjourned her case to May 6. Court notices indicated earlier that she would enter a plea today to a charge of having dealt with $2.75 million in illicit funds.
Paculio, 45 years old, is charged with “dealing with property known or believed to represent proceeds of indictable offense,” in violation of section 25(1) and (3) of the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance.
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The case arose from deposits and withdrawals which amounted
to $2,751,387.98 representing “any person’s proceeds of an indictable offense,”
in her Standard Chartered Bank account between Feb. 22 and 28, 2024.
Susana Echavaria, 57 years old, also remained in detention on two counts of money laundering, involving a comparatively small amount of $533.000.
Eastern Court Principal Magistrate Don So
rejected her lawyer’s offer of $30,000 cash bail and assurances that she would attend
future hearings of her case.
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The first charge alleges that Echavaria handled $413,000 in
crime money through deposits and withdrawals made between 16 and 29 of August
2019 in her account with the Hongkong and Shanhai Banking Corp.
Her Hang Seng Bank account was then used to handle $120,000 of
crime money on September 4 to 13, with the help of a “person unknown”, the Aberdeen
Police complaint added.
In the third case, Emilyn Olarte, was able to post bail of
$600, and was freed until the next hearing scheduled by Acting Principal
Magistrate Veronica Heung for March 18 at Fanling Court.
Olarte, 40 years old, is accused of dealing in $321,552.22
in crime money through her ZA Bank account between Oct. 24, 2023 and Jan. 2024.
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