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| Kowloon City Court |
A Filipina has found herself in the company of four Indonesians when they were presented at Kowloon City Court as defendants in a case that accused them of using their bank accounts to launder sums ranging from $159,000 to $1million.
All five domestic helpers were 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.
No explanations were made about why they were charged jointly,
but past cases indicate that the alleged offenses had a common victim.
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Acting Principal Magistrate Cheng Lim-chi adjourned the case
to October 9. He set a cash bail of $2,000 for their release.
The Filipina, Bernadette Castro, 35 years old, is accused of
dealing with $390,010 through her account with Hang Seng Bank Limited between March
24 and April 11 last year, “knowing or
having reasonable grounds to believe that property…, directly or indirectly
represented any person's proceeds of an indictable offense,” according to documents
by the police.
She is charged alongside females Bisah Safitri, aged 47; Fadhilah, aged 46; Tariff, aged 48 and Yuana Rahmawati, aged 41.
The biggest amount, $1,051,540, was laundered through Yuana’s
Hang Seng Bank account between June 6 and July 12 last year.
