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| Shatin Court |
A domestic helper who pleaded not guilty to two counts of money laundering due to "dirty" money passing through her bank accounts, has failed to convince the Shatin Court of her innocence during trial, and was sentenced to a total of 14 months’ imprisonment.
At
the conclusion of the trial on Wednesday (Jan. 7), Magistrate Jeffrey Sze rejected
the defense of Maylen Macabangon, 47 years old, that she had no participation
in the deposit and withdrawal of some $245,000 from illicit sources using her bank accounts.
The
first charge filed by the Police Anti-Deception Unit alleged that Macabangon handled
$67,500 through her Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited, account between 27 and
27 of January 2022, “knowing or having reasonable grounds to believe that
property…, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, represented any
person's proceeds of an indictable offence.”
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In
the second charge, Police alleged that Macabangon handled $217,573.31 the her account
with The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited between March 26, 2022
and June 18, 2022.
Magistrate
Sze sentenced her to nine months’ jail for the first charge of dealing with
property known or believed to represent proceeds of indictable offence, contrary
to sections 25(1) and 25 (3) of the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance.
He
also jailed her for 12 months for the second charge.
But
since he ordered the first seven months of the first charge to run at the same
time as the second, the sentences added up to 14 months.
