Under heavy guard from the National Bureau of Investigation and the Philippine National Police, the president and other executives of the fraudulent investment company Aman Futures were arraigned Thursday for syndicated estafa.
Pagadian City Mayor Samuel Co has gone into hiding after learning that an Iligan City court had ordered his arrest in connection with the P12-billion Aman Futures pyramiding scam, according to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).
At least 30 undocumented Taiwanese allegedly involved in extortion activities using computers and the Internet were arrested on Tuesday in a joint operation of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) law enforcement department (LED).
Malaysian authorities on Friday stopped the deportation to the Philippines of alleged Ponzi scheme operator Manuel Amalilio as he was about to board a plane to Manila with National Bureau of Investigation agents.
A Filipino Catholic priest wanted in the United States for theft and possession of child pornography has surrendered to Philippine authorities after more than a year as a fugitive.
Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago on Tuesday said the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) would have to get permission from the Philippine government before its agents could conduct their own probe into the killing of American George Anikow.
The National Bureau of Investigation has issued a subpoena against Pagadian City Mayor Samuel Sy Co and his wife, Priscilla Ann, based on the syndicated estafa complaints filed by three of their alleged investors, a source from the bureau said.
The National Bureau of Investigation has sought the help of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) and the Malaysian Embassy in arresting and having Manuel Amanllilio brought back to the Philippines for orchestrating the Aman Futures’ P12-billion pyramiding scam that duped thousands of Filipinos in Mindanao and parts of Visayas, a bureau official said.
A Filipino-Malaysian believed to be the brains behind a scam that duped some 15,000 people in Mindanao and the Visayas of P12 billion has fled to Sabah, the National Bureau of Investigation said Thursday.
Security guards on Friday prevented government investigators from entering a church in Talisay City where religious statues made from “blood ivory” are allegedly kept.
The husband of the 34-year-old overseas contract worker whose body arrived in a coffin here on Friday demanded for the results of the autopsy conducted on his wife who was electrocuted in Qatar sometime in June.
The Lapu-Lapu Regional Trial Court (RTC) has found a Kenyan national guilty of delivery and transport almost three kilos of crystal methamphetamine hydrochloride or more commonly called “shabu”.
