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A Filipina will need to wait for more than two weeks to find out what her sentence will be after pleading guilty at Kwun Tong Court to laundering $868,847.54 of crime money through her bank account.
In a hearing on Monday Jan. 5), Nhona Esmana, 37 years old, admitted 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.
Magistrate Lau Suk-han adjourned the case against Esmana to Jan. 21 for sentencing and remanded her in jail.
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The case arose from the HK$868,847.54 that passed through her account with Hang Seng Bank Limited between March 13, 2020 and June 4, 2020, “knowing or having reasonable grounds to believe that property… represented any person's proceeds of an indictable offence,” according to the complaint of Tseung Kwan O Police.
Meanwhile, two separate money laundering cases heard today at Fan Ling Court were headed to the District Court.
The two charges against Nash Efraim Dalligos, 18 years old, were elevated to the District Court by Principal Magistrate Veronica Heung today after granting him bail of $20,000.
Magistrate Heung adjourned the case to Jan 22.
Dalligos is accused of dealing with $100,000 last Aug. 12, knowing or having reasonable grounds to believe that it was derived from crime.
In the second charge, he allegedly handled $70,000 of crime money on the same day.
It appears he handled the money directly and not through bank accounts, making the charge more serious
The other case was against Daisy Pueyo, 43 years old, whose Standard Chartered Bank (HK) Limited account was used to launder HK$4,002,482,22 of crime money between Jan. 15, 2024 and March 31, 2024.
The case will likely be elevated to the District Court because the possible punishment for the amount involved, in case of conviction, is above the limit set for a magistrate court such as Fan Ling: a fine of $100,000 and two years’ imprisonment.
Magistrate Heung adjourned the case to Feb. 23 and returned Pueyo to jail.
