Three Filipina domestic helpers were each jailed for 12 months after pleading guilty at Eastern Court to letting their bank accounts be used to launder money from crime in sums ranging from $200,000 to $1.4 million.
Noemi Pellerin, 47 years old, Melanie Lizardo, 35, and Irene
Castro, 36, were charged together as the use of their bank accounts to launder a
total of a little over $2 million happened almost simultaneously.
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Principal Magistrate Don So handed down the sentences to them on Friday (March 28) after they admitted their part in dealing with proceeds of a crime, which is
punishable under the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance.
The charge against Pellerin arose from the deposits and
withdawals fom her Standard Chartered Bank account, that totalled $400,400.49
between Apil 3 and July 31 in 2023.
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Lizardo’s case arose from the $200,394.46 that flowed in and
out of her Standard Chartered Bank account between March 28 and July 31, 2023.
Castro had the biggest amount, at $1,400, 239.32, that
passed through her Standard Chartered Bank account between April 3 and July 31,
2023.
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