Pinay to be tried for consumer safety, visa violations

Eastern Court

A two-day trial has been set on Jan. 14-15 next year at Eastern Court for a Filipina domestic helper who denied three charges that include selling products that violate the Consumer Goods Safety Ordinance and doing illegal work.

David Cheung Chi-wai, Principal Magistrate at Eastern Court, freed Aileen Apigo, 46 years old, on bail of $5,000 after a hearing on Friday (Dec. 12).

In the first charge, Apigo is co-accused with a Pakistani, Shah Syed Zaheer Mehmood, of supplying unsafe consumer goods, contrary to Sections 6, 22(1) and 28 (1) of Consumer Goods Safety Ordinance.

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The two were alleged to have supplied three consumer goods -- 3 units of Goree Beauty Cream with Lycopene, Avocado & Aloe vera; three Goree Day and Night Beauty Cream Oil Free and three Goree Gold 24K Beauty Cream -- on Aug. 2 last year.

The two are also co-accused in the second charge -- supplying consumer goods which failed to comply with bilingual warning or caution requirement, contrary to Regulations 2(1) and 2(3) and Chapter 456A of the Consumer Goods Safety Regulation.

The charge arose from the fact that the three consumer items did not have a bilingual warning or caution.

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The final charge, breach of condition of stay, arose because, at the time of her arrest, she was working as a sales lady while holding a domestic helper’s visa under an employment contract she signed with Harpaul Singh Brar.

This is punishable under section 41 of the Immigration Ordinance and by virtue of Regulation 2 of the Immigration Regulations with a fine of up to level 5 ($50,000) and imprisonment for up to two years.