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An elderly Filipino who used a false instrument when he presented papers at a Queen’s Road Central branch of Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp., purporting to show he had US$10 billion in deposits, was sentenced today to a four-month hospital stay.
This ended an eight-month ordeal at Eastern Court for Ramon Revillosa Jr, 69, who was arrested last Feb. 10 and has been in detention since, most of which was at Siu Lam psychiatric hospital, a correctional facility.
Magistrate Minnie Wat based her decision on two psychological reports ordered last Dec. 4 by Principal Magistrate David Cheung Chi-wai, who held off on convicting Revillosa Jr after ruling that the prosecution had proven its case.
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The charge of violating section 73 of the Crimes Ordinance
arose from Revillosa presenting a bank capability letter, guarantee letter and
a certificate of balance, all purporting to have a value of US$10 billion and
issued by HSBC, which he “knew, or believed to be, false”.
He was said to have presented the documents so bank staff
Tang Wing-sheung would accept them as genuine, "and by reason of so
accepting them to do or not do some act to his own, or any other's
prejudice."
Using a false instrument is punishable with up to 14 years
in jail.
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No word has been heard of the persons who accompanied him when
he was arrested: a Filipino woman said to be a lawyer, a Malaysian man, a
Taiwanese man and a woman from the Mainland who used a travel permit to enter
Hong Kong.
The Filipina was allowed bail so she could go back to the
Philippines but was told to return on a specified date, but it is not clear
whether charges were filed against the three others.
