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| The accused is facing 25 charges of fraud at the District Court |
Prosecutors added five more charges to the 20 originally filed against a Filipino asylum seeker when he appeared today at District Court, accused of defrauding the Immigration Department by presenting fake employment contracts to enable his clients to get domestic helper visas.
Immigration accuses Homer Herrera, 40 years old, of
conspiring with other people to defraud the Immigration director and his
officers by “dishonestly and falsely representing” to them that they were to
work for named employers in Hong Kong.
The offenses are contrary to Common Law and punishable under
Section 159C(6) of the Crimes Ordinance.
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The 21st charge accuses Herrera of conspiring
with Ng Tit-hing, Naveed Riaz, Jo-ann Estrada and a person named Scott by
presenting to Immigration a fake contract purportedly between Ng as employer
and Riaz as DH.
The document induced the Immigration director and his officers
“to act contrary to their public duty, namely to grant the said Riaz Naveed
permission to remain in Hong Kong, in circumstances which they would not otherwise
have granted.”
In the 22nd charge, Herrera is accused of
conspiring with Estrada, to submit a fake contract between Chiu Wai-kin as employer
and Purnima Gurung.
In the 23rd charge, Herrera and Estrada allegedly conspired with
Yao Maisheng as employer and Karishma Gurung as DH.
In the 24th charge, Herrera and Scott allegedly conspired
with Analiza Chan as employer and Kaur Amandeep as DH.
In the 25th charge, Herrera and Estrada allegedly
conspired with Ho Ka-hun as employer and Juvelyn Potot as DH.
The 20 earlier charges, which were heard when the case was
still before the Shatin Magistrates Court, are detailed in this earlier
story in The SUN: https://www.sunwebhk.com/2024/06/filipinos-visa-from-fake-jobs-case.html
Herrera was remanded in jail custody until the next hearing on
Sept. 5.
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