Another Filipina has been jailed for six months because of $392K of money that came from crime that passed through her bank account, in a money laundering operation that took less than a month last year.
Cindy Salvan, 39 years old and former domestic helper who is
now unemployed, was charged with 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.
She pleaded guilty to Acting Principal Magistrate Daniel Tang
on Friday (July 10), who sentenced her to nine months as a starting point.
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Salvan was accused of handling $392,569.56 in her Tap &
Go account with HKT Payment Limited between July 27 and August 15, 2025, “knowing
or having reasonable grounds to believe that property… in whole or in part, directly or in
indirectly, represented any person's proceeds of an indictable offence,” according
to police.
Salvan’s was one of three money laundering cases taken up in
the courts on Friday
At West Kowloon Court, Principal Magistrate Don So transferred the case of Milani Bumagat, 55
years old, to the District Court on July 30, after the crime money that passed
through her account in two online banks reached more than HK$3 million.
He granted her bail of $10,000.
Bumagat, a domestic helper, was accused of dealing with $1,288,088.23
in her account with Mox Bank Limited between the 10th and the 17th day of
January, 2023.
She was also accused of dealing with $1,793,705.46 in her account
with PAO Bank Limited between the 10th and 20th of
January 2023.
In the third case in Kowl;oon City Court, Fe Palacay, 46
years old, and a domestic helper, was returned to jail after her money
laundering case before Acting Principal Magistrate Cheng Lim-chi was adjourned
to September 4.
Palacay is accused of dealing with $3,017,932 in her account
with China Citic Bank between the 06th and the 14th of December 2022.
