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| Case was heard at Eastern Court |
A Filipina who admitted at Eastern Court that she obtained a $20,000 loan using an expired employment contract but said that she had paid it back in full, was sentenced today to three months imprisonment.
Principal Magistrate Don So disregarded a plea for a suspended sentence for Mariel Antenor, aged 32 years, who pleaded guilty in a hearing last July.
In the previous hearing, Antenor told Magistrate So that she had paid
all installments except one, prompting him to order a background report to clarify
the matter.
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Her lawyer told the court today that she had already paid the loan in full.
The case arose after Antenor presented an invalid work contract to Prime Credit’s office at Eurotrade Center Bldg. in Central on Sept. 14, 2022, to meet one of the requirements for a $20,000 loan.
After approving the loan, the financing company said it
later found out that the work contract was no longer valid when Antenor applied
for it.
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The offence was discovered when Antenor went to the Immigration Department to apply for a renewal of her new contract.
Her lawyer had initially argued that Antenor did not know that it was an offence to use an expired work contract to apply for a loan.
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