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| Upstairs bar where the Filipino was arrested (Google Maps Photo) |
A Filipino asylum seeker was jailed today for 15 months after he pleaded guilty at Eastern Court for taking employment while under a deportation order.
Melben Tamayor, 40 years old, was arrested on Dec. 23, 2023 along
with a Nepalese while working as a waiter at the Tai Tai bar on D’Aguilar
Street in Central.
He was convicted of violating section 378X of the Immigration Ordinance, which prohibits people of
his status of taking employment, whether paid or unpaid, without the authority
of the director of Immigration.
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Principal Magistrate Don So adjourned the case against his
co-accused, Chetri Wagle, aged 24, to Nov. 21.
He was charged with selling liquor without a licene and
possession of liquor for sale without a license, both a violation of the
Dutiable Commodities Ordinance.
He was accused of selling Corona beer to undercover police
officers, as well as having in stock 130 bottles and cans of liquor without
permission from the Liquor Licensing Board.
He is free on $5,000 bail.
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