By Daisy CL Mandap
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| Ylagan was held for conspiracy to defraud and money laundering |
In an emailed response to a query on the status of Ylagan’s
investigation, a police spokesperson said, “the 65-year-old arrested woman was
released on Police bail and is required to report back to Police in early July
2018.”
Earlier, the Police confirmed to The SUN that Ylagan had been
arrested on June 7 in Western District for “conspiracy to defraud” and “dealing with
property known or believed to represent proceeds of an indictable offence”
(also known as money laundering).”
The arrest reportedly stemmed from complaints
filed by 210 individuals starting in 2016, alleging that they had been deceived
in a job recruitment scam in which each lost between $5,000 and $20,000.
Earlier reports indicated, however, that Ylagan
had recruited up to 500 Filipino job applicants in Hong Kong, Macau and the Philippines for non-existent jobs in Britain and Canada
Subsequent investigations revealed she and several other people close to her had sent a total of around $10 million to several countries as far apart as Malaysia and Burkina Faso.
Ylagan was arrested one day after Arnold Grospe, another Filipino
on the police’s lookout list was detained in Central.
Grospe was the marketing director of Peya Travel, which collapsed
in December last year amid complaints of unpaid air tickets from more than
1,000 of its customers.
Hundreds of complainants were unable to board their flights back
to the Philippines
Check out The SUN's earlier story on this here: https://www.sunwebhk.com/2018/06/hk-police-arrest-ylagan-grospe.html
