HK woman gets 10-year sentence for money laundering

A Hong Kong public housing tenant was sentenced to jail for 10 years on Tuesday for laundering more than HK$6.8 billion (US$876.6 million) by making about 39,500 bank transfers between 2002 and 2005, Reuters reported. Lam Mei-ling, 61, told the court that she was illiterate and had made the transfers on behalf of an unidentified woman from her home town in Dongguan, in southern Guangdong province. The case comes just two months after a 22-year-old delivery man from Guangdong province was jailed for laundering HK$13.1 billion (US$1.69 billion), the biggest such case recorded in Hong Kong.