DOJ team that will handle Aman Futures case bared
By Tetch Torres-Tupas
The Department of Justice (DoJ) has already organized the body that will handle the extradition and forfeiture of assets of Aman Futures Founder Manuel Amalilio.
The Department of Justice (DoJ) has already organized the body that will handle the extradition and forfeiture of assets of Aman Futures Founder Manuel Amalilio.
The top official of the Barangay Councilors League of the Philippines (BCLP) has been accused of running a multimillion-peso investment scam that has defrauded people across the country.
The leader of the Rasuman group, an investment scam firm in Lanao Del Sur, was arrested Tuesday by joint police and National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) operatives in Marawi City.
Three suspects allegedly involved in a pyramiding scam in Mindanao were arrested Tuesday. Bashir Rasuman, his brother Jerome and Bashir’s son Coco surfaced separately. Bashir Rasuman was former undersecretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways.
Nearly two dozen police officials and personnel in Zamboanga del Sur have already been relieved from their posts by their superiors and asked to explain their roles in the operation of Aman Futures Group, which ran a scheme that duped about 15,000 people of some P12 billion in cash, according to the regional police.
Maria Donna Coyme, an investment “agent” of Aman Futures Group, has disclosed to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) the bank accounts of the group where money collected from investors were deposited.
Masique had a hard time carrying the two attaché cases, which contained about P2 million, to the bank.
BEFORE the multibillion-peso Aman Futures pyramiding scam, there was an even bigger fraudulent moneymaking scheme in the south, according to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).
THE FALLOUT from the Aman Futures pyramid scam has spiraled into a string of abductions involving angry investors and company agents taking the brunt for lost fortunes and blighted lives.
This is about greed. There are rich and educated people who also fall victim to these scams.”
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima created on Wednesday a panel of prosecutors to help some 15,000 victims duped in a multi-billion peso pyramid scam in the Visayas and Mindanao file cases of syndicated estafa against the operators of Aman Futures Group Philippines Inc., before the end of 2012.
An alleged agent of Aman Futures – the investment company involved in a multi-billion-peso scam in Mindanao and Visayas – was found dead in a Zamboanga del Sur town with a bullet hole in the chest after he was abducted by unidentified men here on Monday.
