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| Kwun Tong Court |
Another Filipina has been jailed for 10 months after pleading guilty at Kwun Tong Court to allowing $1.8 million of proceeds from crime to pass though her bank account, and then withdrawn by unknown persons.
Rowena Costinar, 44 years old, had been charged with dealing
with property known or believed to represent proceeds of indictable offense, contrary
to sections 25 (1) and 25 (3) of the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance.
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| PINDUTIN PARA SA DETALYE |
Acting Principal Magistrate Li Chi-ho handed the sentence to
Costinar after deducting the usual one-third as credit for her guilty plea.
Costinar, a domestic helper, admitted to having dealt with $1,770,298.13
in her account with the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, during
the 12 days between April 9 and 20, 2023.
She did the offense, together with another unknown person, “knowing
or having reasonable grounds to believe that property, … represented any
person's proceeds of an indictable offence,” the police complaint said.
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| Basahin ang detalye! |
Meanwhile, in the same court, Roel Capuli, 54 years old.
pleaded not guilty to the charge of cruelty to animals, contrary to section
3(1)(a) of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Ordinance.
Magistrate Li scheduled his trial for December 2. He is out
on bail of $500.
Capuli is charged with cruelly ill-treating two dogs and
causing unnecessary suffering to the said dogs on September 26, 2025 on Ho Chung Road, Sai Kung
Division, Ho Chung, Sai Kung, New Territories.
