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| The defendants' bank accounts were used to launder money from a love scam |
The trial of three Filipinas who are co-accused with a local woman in a money laundering case, has concluded at Eastern Court, with the magistrate setting the date for her verdict.
Magistrate Minnie Wat scheduled the reading of her decision
for July 17 on the complaint filed by police against them for dealing in property
known or believed to be proceeds of indictable offense, which is punishable
under the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance.
In the meantime, Magistrate Wat set the four defendants free
on bail -- $2,000 in cash for restaurant worker Wong Siu-kuen, 53 years old, and
$1,000 each for Filipina domestic workers Marife Dionson, 43, Geraldine Tolentino, 38, and Ires
Calinawagan, 40.
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| TAWAG NA! |
Wong is accused of letting her Hang Seng Bank account be the
depository for $776,460 between June 15 and Aug. 20, 2020.
Dionson is accused of allowing her HSBC account be used to
launder proceeds of a crime, when a total of $358,300 passed through it between 8th and 9th of july 2020.
Tolentino is charged with allowing her HSBC account to host
$566,438 in crime earnings between 15th and 20th of July
2020.
The case against Calinawagan was that between 10th and 23rd of july 2020, a total of $714,406 passed through her HSBC account.
According to the prosecution, the money that went to the defendants' bank accounts had come from a total of $1,850,265 that a local woman working as a secretary lost to a man named "Zhang" who became her online boyfriend for five months in 2020.
The victim surnamed Wong, told the court she transferred some $1.6 million from her Bank of China accounts to various accounts of unknown people after someone claiming to be from a courier company told her she needed to pay some fees for a package sent to her by Zhang.
Later, she was also charged for "interest payments" as the package supposedly contained a large amount of cash.
Wong is on bail for $2,000 while her three co-defendants were each made to post $1,000 bail.
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