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| Shatin Magistrates Court |
A Filipina has been jailed for five months and one week after pleading guilty to two of three charges filed against her by the Imigration Department at Shatin Court, including presenting fake documents to get a new employment visa.
Acting Principal Magistrate Cheang Kei-hong sentenced Anabelle Waguis, 37 years old, to four weeks imprisonment for breach
of condition of stay and five months and one week for conspiracy to defraud. He
ordered that the two sentences run at the same time.
A third charge, making a false statement for the purpose of
obtaining an entry permit, was dropped.
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Magistrate Cheang handed down the sentence in a hearing on
Thursday (November 12).
The first charge, a violation of section 41 of the
Immigration Ordinance, arose after Waguis stayed on despite the September 22, 2022
deadline set by an Immigration Officer for her to leave, until she was arrested
for overstaying on October 12, 2025.
The second charge, conspiracy to defraud contrary to Common
Law and section 2(3) and 4(2) of Criminal Jurisdiction Ordinance and punishable
under section 159C(6) of Crimes Ordinance, arose after she presented a fake employment
contract to Immigration to apply for a new employment visa.
In its charge, Immigration said Waguis conspired together
with a person known as Kate, to defraud the director of Immigration and his
officers, “by entering into a foreign domestic helper contract and by
dishonestly and falsely representing to the Director and his officers that (she)
would work for Ng Yuk Man as a foreign domestic helper.”
The conspiracy induced the “director and his officers to act
contrary to their public duty, namely to grant you the permission to remain in
Hong Kong as a foreign domestic helper under circumstances which they would not
otherwise have granted,” the charge added.
