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| Visa application interview (Immigration Department file photo) |
A Filipina was convicted of two counts of conspiring with others to lie to the Immigration Department to be able to arrange for a fellow Filipina to get an employment visa as a domestic helper, after she pleaded guilty at Shatin Court on Monday.
However, Magistrate Pang Leung-ting put off the sentencing of Jackielou Pasaporte, aged 45, to September 24.
In the meantime, he ordered her returned to jail.
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| PINDUTIN PARA SA DETALYE |
In the first conspiracy to defraud charge, contrary to Common Law and sections 2(3) and 4(2) of the Criminal Jurisdiction Ordinance and punishable under section 159C(6) of the Crimes Ordinance, Pasaporte admitted conspiring with Desiree Bernabe and So Kam Lo to make it appear that Bernabe would work for So as a domestic helper.
Her dishonesty and false representation to the Immigration director
and his officers on or about May 13, 2025, induced them “to act contrary to
their public duty, namely to grant Bernabe, Desiree Romero permission to enter
and remain in Hong Kong in circumstances which they would not otherwise have
granted,” the Immigration Department complaint said.
The second conspiracy to defraud that she admitted referred to her role in Bernabe’s visa application on June 26, 2025 purportedly showing that she entered into a domestic helper contract with Kwan Yun Pak.
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| Basahin ang detalye! |
Pasaporte dishonestly and falsely represent(ed) to the (Immigration)
director and his officers that Bernabe's entries to and remaining in Hong Kong
were for the purpose of working as a domestic helper of Kwan, Yun Pak, the charge
added.
As a result of the fraud, the Immigration officials were
induced to grant Bernabe permission to enter and remain in Hong Kong in
circumstances which they would not otherwise have granted, the Immgration said.
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