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A Filipino arrested for possessing fake bank documents worth US$10 billion was returned to jail today, after his application for bail was rejected at Eastern Court.
Ramon Revillosa Jr., 68 yeas old, and who claimed to be a businessman, was arrested after he presented the bank documents at Pedder Street branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. in Central on Feb. 10.
After denying him bail, Principal Magistrate Don So scheduled his next bail hearing date for Feb. 27.
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Magistrate So also rejected his request, presented to
the court by a duty lawyer, for access to his belongings so he could contact
his relatives in the Philippines to raise funds for his bail.
At the same time, So adjourned the hearing of the case about Revillosa’s alleged violation
of section 73 of the Crimes Ordinance, to March 27.
A complaint filed by the Central Police District on Feb. 13
alleges that Revillosa presented three documents last Feb. 10 “with the
intention of inducing the staff” of HSBC
“to accept them as genuine and by reason of accepting them, to do or not to do
some act to his own or any other peson’s pejudice.”
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Suspicous bank staff called police after examining the
documents.
Police alleged that
he presented a bank capabilty letter, a guarantee letter and a certificate of
balance, all issued by HSBC, “which were and which he believed to be false….”
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Earlier reports said Revillosa was arrested at the bank with a 38-year-old Filipino woman who claimed to be a lawyer, a Malaysian man, a Taiwanese man and a woman who used a Hong Kong and Macau Travel Permit to enter Hong Kong.
But the charge sheet only named Revillosa and not the others he was reportedly with when he was arrested.
The offence he is charged with carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in jail.
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