A domestic helper has been sentenced to 16 weeks’ imprisonment for money laundering, while another Filipina has been returned to jail after a similar case filed against her was adjourned today.
Acting Principal Magistrate Cheng Lim-chi jailed Teresita
Elpa, 45 years old, on Friday (Aug. 15) after she pleaded guilty to the charge
of dealing with property known or believed to represent proceeds of indictable
offense, a violation of the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance.
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A police complaint had alleged that a total of $165,594.06 which
came from crime was deposited and withrawn from her Hang Seng Bank account
between March 4 and April 25 2019.
It said Elpa dealt with the property, “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 crime.”
In a separate but similar case at Kwun Tong Court, Acting
Principal Magistrate Leung Ka-kie ordered that Cherelle Elle, 38 years old and
unemployed, be held in jail while waiting for her next hearing.
Magistrate Leung adjourned the case to Sept. 30.
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Elle is accused of dealing with crime money because of the inflow and outflow of $363,442.58 in her Bank of China account between Aug. 1, 2022 and Jan. 13, 2023.
