Burst
Author: Yang Wanting Yu Ruijing
2020-05-29 20:21
Last update date: 2020-05-29 20:21The Immigration Department smashed a foreign domestic helper agency using fake information to apply for a visa for foreign domestic helpers to do cleaning or hourly work in Hong Kong. The Indonesian master was sentenced to 43 months in prison. The mastermind of the foreign domestic helper intermediary company finds the maid who wants to "make quick money" through the domestic helper network, or eager to find a new employer after the contract expires, charges them a fee ranging from 20,000 to 40,000 yuan, and then uses the illegal Means to obtain real Hong Kong people's identity card information, recreate false income and residence certificates, apply for work visas for foreign domestic helpers, and engage in hourly or cleaning work in Hong Kong. The Immigration Department arrested Mastermind and 23 foreign domestic helpers in 2018. Mastermind was sentenced to 43 months ’imprisonment, and 17 of them have been successfully prosecuted and sentenced to 3 to 8 months’ imprisonment. Most of them have already left Hong Kong.
Fan Xiaosheng, Assistant Director (Law Enforcement), Immigration Department. (Photo by Yu Ruijing)
Fan Xiaosheng, Assistant Director (Law Enforcement) of the Immigration Department, said that the Immigration Department had smashed a criminal group that used false documents to apply for a work visa for a foreign domestic helper, and arrested a 43-year-old Indonesian female hero who held a Hong Kong identity card and operated a A foreign agency agency, she was found guilty of three counts of conspiracy to defraud and five counts of using false instruments in the District Court. She was sentenced to 43 months ’imprisonment this afternoon.
The Immigration Department began to pay attention to the activities of the criminal group in December 2017. At that time, the Immigration Department carried out a large-scale anti-illegal labor operation. During the operation, an Indonesian foreign domestic worker was arrested. She was doing cleaning work in the restaurant. After the investigation, she I did not work in the place indicated in the contract of employment of the foreign domestic helper, and the employer on the contract did not know her. Various indications indicated that an illegal organization may apply for a work visa for her. After an in-depth investigation and analysis by the Immigration Department, the maid found The foreign domestic helper intermediary company submitted an application, and the Immigration Department took action in March 2018. It dispatched personnel to the intermediary company to conduct a raid. A large number of false documents and false employment contracts were seized. During the operation, the group master and 23 foreign domestic helpers were arrested, of which 21 were Indonesian The nationality, two people are Filipinos, aged between 30 and 52 years old, 17 of them have been successfully prosecuted and sentenced to 3 to 8 months' imprisonment, most of them have left Hong Kong after the completion of their sentences.
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The lawless group has been operating since 2013. The main brain uses the convenience of operating a foreign domestic helper agency and knows Indonesian language, so as to know a large number of foreign domestic helpers, find a desire to "fast money" through the domestic helper network, or eager to find a new one when the contract expires The employer ’s maid tempted them to take the risk and charged the visa applicants with fees ranging from 20,000 to 40,000 yuan. The illegal income was as high as 1 million yuan. The group used illegal means to obtain real Hong Kong identity card information, re-create false income and residence certificates to apply for a work visa, and provide one-stop service. When the visa is approved, foreign domestic helpers will be taught to remember the employer ’s family Background, address, other information, and teach them to deal with the inspection of the Immigration Department. The monthly income from outside employment is 4,000 yuan, but if you do illegal labor, such as cleaning and hourly work, you have already earned 400 to 600 yuan a day.
The operation has come to an end and the investigation is still under way. It is not ruled out that more people have been arrested or prosecuted. We are now investigating how the group obtained information on Hong Kong identity cards. Currently, more than 20 people have been stolen information. Understand, they said that they did not recruit foreign domestic helpers, nor did they know the foreign domestic helpers arrested. The Immigration Department believes that this is an individual incident and there is no upward trend in this method.
Fan Xiaosheng called on the manufacture, possession and use of false documents in accordance with the laws of Hong Kong to be convicted and sentenced to 14 years ’imprisonment. Applying for an entry visa to make false statements or provide false information to the immigration staff is also criminally responsible. Upon conviction, the maximum fine is 150,000 and imprisonment for 14 years. He reminded employers to check the identification documents of job applicants when recruiting. If they do not hold a Hong Kong permanent identity card, they must check their travel documents and visas to understand whether they can be legally employed, otherwise they will bear legal responsibility and may be fined up to a fine. 350,000 and three years in prison.
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