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| The accused was arrested as she tried to exit HK on the way to Macau |
A Filipino domestic helper found herself pleading guilty to a charge of money laundering today because an ATM card borrowed by an acquaintance ended up being used to deposit and withdraw a syndicate’s income from crime.
Julie
Constantino, 35 years old, was not immediately sentenced at the Kowloon City
Court, as Acting Principal
Magistrate Ko Wai-hung ordered a background report on her.
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| Pindutin para sa detalye |
But Magistrate Ko warned her
that “a committal sentence is inevitable.”
He adjourned the case to Feb. 27 for the sentence and sent her back to jail, where she has been held in custody since her arrest last December at the immigration control checkpoint for people travelling to Macau.
According to a police complaint read to her, a total of
$352,500 was deposited and withdrawn using the ATM card for her Hang Seng Bank
account.
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| TAWAG NA! |
The ATM card was earlier borrowed by an acquaintance --the
helper of her employer’s friend – who told Constantino that her boyfriend
needed a bank account to receive $15,200 to be remitted to him.
After she lent the ATM Card and disclosed its PIN, deposits
and withdrawals were made in the account from Aug. 30 to Sept. 16, 2021.
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| PINDUTIN DITO |
Constantino claimed she did not know how the account was
used after she lent the ATM card, until she was arrested as she was exiting Hong
Kong to board a bus to Macau in December last year.
The acquaintance who borrowed her ATM card has left Hong
Kong, leaving her to answer the criminal charge.
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| PADALA NA! |
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