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A Filipina domestic helper whose bank ATM card was used by another DH for money laundering, for which the latter was jailed earlier for eight months, was herself jailed for nine months and 27 days by the District Court.
Richel Gania, 47 years old, pleaded
guilty on Thursday (Dec. 5) to dealing with $189,110.04 of crime money by
allowing her Hang Seng Bank account to be used as its depository between April
1, 2018 and Nov. 1, 2020.
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She was convicted of “dealing with
property known or believed to represent proceeds of an indictable offense,
conrary to section 35(1) and (3) of the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance.”
Deputy District Judge David Cheung
handed the sentence on Gania, whose case was resolved separately from those of her
two co-accused – Wong Chi-tang, 37, who was accused of laundering $3,667.329.50
through his Bank of China account; and Rachel Galvadores, 47, whose Hang Seng
Bank account was linked to the laundering of $577,302.00.
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Gania’s ATM card was the main
evidence in the case against Michelle Valenzuela, aged 45, who was sentenced last
Nov. 21 at Eastern Court to eight months in jail.
She admitted to Principal
Magistrate Don So that she used Gania’s ATM card in depositing and withdrawing
money from the bank account.
She also answered yes when
Magistrate So asked if somebody gave her the ATM card of the account.
