Police raided an outbound call center company at the Cebu Business Park in Cebu City Thursday on suspicion that it duped Americans into buying bogus gift cards.
Pagadian City Mayor Samuel Co, who has been slapped with an arrest warrant for his alleged role in the Aman Futures investment scam, has been rarely seen in Pagadian these days but he has not been hiding, the executive’s lawyer said on Wednesday.
The Bureau of Immigration has already alerted its personnel in all ports all over the country to prevent fugitive housing developer Delfin Lee and four other accused from leaving the country.
Suspected investment scam leader Jacob “Coco” Rasuman on Monday appeared for the first time since his arrest in November at the Department of Justice to subscribe to his counter-affidavits in 15 more syndicated estafa cases filed against him and his family.
The month-long crisis in Sabah triggered by the “incursion” by an armed group acting for Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III, may have set back the government’s efforts to have alleged pyramid scam leader Manuel Amalilio extradited from Malaysia.
A 25-year-old housemaid claimed she was tricked late Monday afternoon by members of the so-called “dugo-dugo” gang into giving up nearly P1 million in expensive jewelry belonging to her employers and ended up taking the alleged con artists’ place behind bars.
The Philippine Army denied that an alleged fixer shot dead by a security guard in Cubao, Quezon City on Monday was a member of the military.
As if being unseated as congressman for poll fraud were not enough, newly appointed election commissioner Macabangkit Lanto is accused of coercing election inspectors in the 2007 elections, an offense that carries a penalty of disqualification from holding public office and time in jail.
High-tech poll fraud was supposedly their specialty.
The Seoul city government is offering a cash reward of 500,000 won ($460) to anyone informing the authorities about taxi drivers who rip off foreign tourists.
An alleged swindler’s attempt to pull the same trick twice on the same person led to the arrest in an entrapment operation of the con artist, who had allegedly duped a real estate company administrator out of P3.3 million by pawning a lot using a fake land title in Quezon City.
There is no need for President Benigno Aquino III to request Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak to release fugitive Manuel Amalilio to Philippine authorities because foreign affairs and justice officials could work this out, Malacañang said Monday.
A Cagayan de Oro City court on Friday issued warrants of arrest for the wife, father and other relatives of alleged investment scam leader Jachob “Coco” Rasuman following the filing of two new syndicated estafa complaints by the Department of Justice with the court.
