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The Shatin Court today postponed the sentencing of a Filipina who pleaded guilty to presenting fake employment contracts to get an employment visa from the Immigration Department, after she expressed willingness to help authorities in prosecuting those who conspired with her.
Magistrate Jeffrey Sze convicted Desiree
Bernabe, 47 years old, on two counts of conspiracy to defraud, contrary to
Common Law and punishable under section 159C(6) of the Crimes Ordinance, but
adjourned to June 5 for mention. He set a bail of $500.
In the first charge, Bernabe is accused of applying for a
domestic helper’s visa using a fake employment contract between an unknown day
in May 2025 and June 26, 2025, after her previous contract expired.
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She admitted conspiring with an agent known as Jacky, to
defraud the Director of Immigration and his officers by dishonestly and falsely representing to
the Immigration Department that she would work for a certain So Kam Lo as a
domestic helper.
This was intended to induce Immigration officials to grant her
permission to enter and remain in Hong Kong in circumstances which they would
not otherwise have granted, the complaint filed by Immigration said.
She allegedly paid $17,500 for the services of the agent.
When this application was disapproved, she again applied at
the Immigration Department between June 26, 2025 and Oct. 22, 2025, conspiring with
persons known as Jacky and Jimmy.
This time, the employer in the contract is Kwan Yun Pak.
She was arrested by Immigration officers shortly after.
