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| Building in which theft occurred (Google Maps photo) |
A Filipina who has been in detention for six months on a charge of stealing more than $1 million from a lending company in Central, will be taken to the District Court when she attends the next hearing of her case.
Principal Magistrate Don So today adjourned the Eastern Court case of Mary
Ann Destajo, 36 years old, and scheduled her plea for Nov. 26 at the District
Court. He remanded her in jail custody.
This came after the prosecution filed an amended complaint that
increased the amount she is acused of stealing from her former employer,
Pacific Ace Financing Ltd., from the previous $1,068,848 to $1,072,109.
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The period she was accused
of stealing the amount at her employer’s office in Wing On House in Central,
was also amended: from Dec. 2, 2020 to Aug. 26, 2023. This period is four
months shorter than that covered by the original charge, from August 2020 to
July 2023.
Destajo, whose occupation was
originally listed as receptionist, was identified later as a cashier during the
three years that she was alleged to have stolen the cash.
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She has remained in custody since the court rejected her lawyer's offer of a $10,000 cash bail on May 23, a day after the Central Police filed the theft case against her.
Magistrate Minnie Wat rejected the offer, citing the seriousness of the offense, the breach of trust involved and the strength of evidence against the defendant.
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