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| Store where stolen Octopus card was used (Google Maps photo) |
A Filipina domestic helper has been fined a total of $3,000 and made to pay $96.90 in compensation after she pleaded guilty to theft for not returning an Octopus card she had found, and using it for two purchases.
S. Barbon, 47 years old, was meted the penalty after she pleaded guilty before Principal Magistrate Ivy Chui last Aug 29 at
the West Kowloon Court.
Barbon was fined $1,000 each for three counts of theft - the first, for not returning the Octopus card she found somewhere in Sham Shui Po last April 22, and then using it on two occasions to buy goods.
The personalized card was in the name of a Chinese individual.
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The second fine of $1,000 was for a $64 purchase using the card at the Chuen Fung Dispensary in Sterling Mall in Mei Foo Soon Chuen in Kowloon.
In addition, she was made to pay $64 to Octopus Cards Ltd.,
as the amount was a “chose in action”, or a debt owed by the company to the
card owner.
She was also fined $1,000 for using the Octopus card for a
$32.90 purchase at a Watsons store in Sterling Mall.
She was made to pay $32.90 to Octopus Cards Ltd., as the
company owes the amount to the card owner.
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