Haishan Li and WenLi Fu appeared on April 30 with Assistant Public Defender Jason Shaw for bail and arraignment hearing.
The defendants entered a not guilty plea to their respective charges, forgery and aiding and abetting forgery.The defendants also posted $500 surety bonds and were released from custody.The affidavit of probable cause stated that Detective Lieutenant Richard Ngiratrang received information on March 20 about two Chinese nationals forging Bank of Hawaii documents in order to obtain visa for Australia.The affidavit stated that the Australian Embassy in Pohnpei contacted Bank of Hawaii office in Palau to check on bank transmittal statements of the defendants.The affidavit stated that the Embassy received bank transmittal statements from Bank of Hawaii regarding the defendants’ accounts.The affidavit stated that the document that the Embassy received pertaining to Haishan Li stated that Li had a Bank of Hawaii bank balance in the amount of $31, 547.75 on January 21, 2009.The document added that the actual balance of Li in his account on January 21, 2009 was $1,500.Wenli Fu had BOH account balance of $22, 557.75 but his actual balance was only $200.The court document stated that the bank transmittal had the name and signature of one Chrisilda Kloulubak, BOH Consumer Banking Representative.The affidavit stated that defendants forged the BOH documents over Kloulubak’s signature in order to gain entry into Australia under false pretenses.
