A Filipina domestic helper was jailed for 10 months today after she pleaded guilty at the Kowloon City Court to two money laundering charges involving $833,935.01.
Jocel Pajela, 43 years old, was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment
for the first charge of “dealing with property known or believed to represent
proceeds of indictable crime,” and six months for the second.
However, Acting Principal Magistrate Ko Wai-hung, made the
first four months of the second sentence run at the same time as the first,
leaving two months’ additional jail term.
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The first charge arose from the deposits and withdrawals of
$478,503 in crime money in Pajela’s Hang Seng Bank account between July 12,
2023 and Sept. 6, 2023.
The second charge was for the $355,432.01 that went in and
out of her Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. account on April 18 to 29, 2023.
Both acts violated the Serious and Organized Crime
Ordinance.
Meanwhile, another DH walked free on bail of $2,000 from the Kwun Tong Court today despite the addition of two more money laundering charges against her, in which a total of $2.2 million in crime money allegedly passed though her three bank accounts.
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Eva Rose Tacda, 47 years old, initially faced one charge of “dealing with property known or believed to represent proceeds of indictable crime,” according to the information filed by police on July 26, 2024.
The charge arose from deposits and withdrawals totaling $256,510.1
in her MOX Bank Ltd. account within two days, on Feb. 22-23, 2023.
The first of the two additional charges was for her alleged handling of $940,356 though deposits and withdrawals in her Standard Chartered Bank account on February 22-27, 2023.
Her third charge arose from the inflow and outflow of $983,839 in her HSBC account also on February 22-27, 2023, the police complaint added.
All of the alleged offences are in violation of the Organized and
Serious Crime Ordinance,
Acting Principal Magistrate Leung Ka-kie adjourned the case
to May 20.
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