A Filipina tourist who overstayed for three years has been jailed for 14 months áfter pleading guilty to money laundering Tuesday at Eastern Court. She admitted to allowing more than HK$1 million in criminal proceeds to enter and leave her bank account.
But an overstaying charge against Ann Mongcal, 42 years old and unemployed, remains pending with Chief Magistrate So Wai-tak adjourning the case to November 24.
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Mongcal’s first charge is dealing with property known or
believed to represent proceeds of indictable offence, contrary to sections
2541) and 25(3) of the Organized and Serious Crimes. Ordinance.
She was charged with handling a total of $1,009,470 Hong
Kong currency in her bank account with the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation Limited between March 8 and April 7, 2021, “knowing or having
reasonable grounds to believe that (the) property, … in whole or in part
directly or indirectly represented any person's proceeds of an indictable
offence.…”
Mongcal’s second charge is breach of condition of stay –overstay,
contrary to section 41 of the Immigration Ordinance.
She was charged with overstaying after her visitor’s visa
expired on June 24, 2023, having been permitted by an Immigratio oficer to remain
in Hong Kong for two weeks after he arrived, but stayed until her arrest last
April 12.
