A Filipina pleaded guilty in Shatin Court yesterday (Jan. 16) to entering into a fake work contract to get a domestic helper’s visa, but her sentencing was put off as investigation continues on people who enabled the crime.
Elynette Montalban, 43 years old,
was carrying her toddler when she entered the court on a charge of conspiracy
to defraud, which is against Common Law, Criminal Jurisdiction Ordinance and
Crimes Ordinance.
Acting Principal Magistrate Amy
Chan acceded to a request of the prosecutor to put off the sentencing to Feb.
22 because the investigation could determine the extent of Montalban’s
participation in the case and help assess the penalty to be imposed on her.
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She was accused as conspiring
with one Kathleen Vizcarra and her supposed employer, Tam Ka-ki, to defraud the
director of Immigration and his officers into granting her a visa by submitting
a fake work contract.
The charge said the Immigration
officers were induced “to act contrary to their public duty, namely to grant
you permission to enter and remain in Hong Kong under circumstances which they
would not otherwise have granted.”
Montalban was set free on $1,000
bail.
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Vizcarra was also mentioned in a similar
case heard by Magistrate Chan, in which Filipina Virginia Jovilla pleaded
not guilty to two charges of conspiracy
to defraud, saying she depended on her agent to process her application for a
domestic helper’s visa.
Chan scheduled the pre-trial
review for Feb. 26 and the trial for March 15.
Jovilla is out on bail of $1,000.
She is accused of conspiring with
Vizcarra and her supposed employer Kung Yee-chi, to defraud Immigration
officials from January to March 4, 2022 by submitting a fake work contract to
be allowed to enter and stay in Hong Kong as a domestic helper.
From March 2022 to Jan. 31, 2023,
she again allegedly conspired with Vizcarra and with another employer, Liu Chung-hang, to
submit a fake domestic helper contract to Immigration and was granted another
visa.
In both cases, Jovilla was told
by her agent to just wait for her visa to be approved, her lawyer said.
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