Money seized by police from an unrelated scam and money laundering case
Three Filipinos accused of money laundering are spending their time in jail after their hearings Friday (June 14) to await their next date in court for allegedly letting their bank accounts be used as depository for proceeds of crimes.
Aster Leo
Balucang, 38, was told at a hearing at Kwun Ting Court to return on July 12.
Among the three defendants, he had the biggest amount linked
to his bank account, with a total of $2,182,836 being deposited into and withdrawn
from his HSBC Hong Kong account between Oct. 10, 2022 and June 10, 2023.
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Marcela Awingan, 38 years old, who appeared at Eastern Court
Friday, was told to return on Aug. 6.
A total of $1,231,539.07 entered and left her Standard
Chartered Bank account between March 12 and April 13, 2023, according to the
complaint filed by police.
Awingan, who was detained at the Hong Kong International Airport on Jan. 28 while she was seven months’ pregnant, and held on suspicion of money laundering, had said in open court last May 17 that she would plead guilty to the charge.
When it was her turn to appear at Eastern Court,
Ma. Rochel Fuentes, aged 35, was told to return on Aug. 22 for the transfer of
her papers to another court.
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Like Awingan, Fuentes was also arrested at the airport as a result of the movement of
a total of $666,300 within two days, from April 4 to 6,
2023 in her Standard Chartered Bank account.
The three are facing the charge of
dealing with property known or believed to represent proceeds of indictable
offense.”
They are accused of violating
Sections 25(1) and 25(3) of the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance.
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