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Lying to Immigration authorities to be able to get approval for a domestic helper’s visa has landed a Filipina in jail for seven months.
Valerie Ann Tapiculin, 36 years old and holder of a recognizance
form to serve as her identity document, received the usual one-third discount
from Acting Principal Magistrate Cheang Kei-hong at Shatin Court, after she
pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy to defraud.
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Police had accused her of the crime, which is contrary to
Common Law and punishable under section 1590(6) of the Crimes Ordinance by conspiring
“with other persons unknown, to defraud the Director of Immigration” between June
2022 and Dec. 15, 2023 .
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She did this “by dishonestly and falsely representing to the
Director and his officers that (she) had been employed by Wong, Tsz Ying as a
domestic helper, and (her) entries to and remaining in Hong Kong were for the
purpose of working as a domestic helper.”
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This, it added, induced “the Director and his officers to
act contrary to their public duty” and granting her permission to enter and
remain in Hong Kong “in circumstances which they would not otherwise have
granted.”
