Korean casino spree organizer gambles firm’s money away
By Jaymee T. Gamil
The temptation to gamble must have been too hard to resist for a Korean casino junket employee who ended up losing more than P13 million of his company’s money.
The temptation to gamble must have been too hard to resist for a Korean casino junket employee who ended up losing more than P13 million of his company’s money.
A Japanese national who wanted to try a modelling career ended up getting duped by a man who pretended to be a talent manager and carted away her personal belongings and cash.
A 59-year-old Korean national was arrested Monday morning after his housemate complained that the former stole his wallet while he was sleeping in their boarding house in Ermita, Manila.
Saudi Arabian Jamal Thabitim Alyafel, 40, was expecting all the good things in the Philippines when he came for a week’s tour — beautiful mountains and sceneries, friendly and accommodating people, a nice stay.
An Italian national lost her laptop, cell phones, camera and P51,000 in cash in a Makati City restaurant on Monday night.
One of the two pickpockets on the prowl at the Metro Rail Transit is now behind bars after he stole the cell phone of a Nepalese doctor on Monday afternoon in Quezon City.
Singapore police warned Tuesday that members of a Chinese crime syndicate were believed to be stealing money from the bags of passengers while they slept on flights to and from the country.
An American tourist lost P20,000 cash to a pickpocket at a Light Rail Transit station in Manila on Thursday afternoon, the police said.
A Filipina certified nursing assistant in Chicago is accused of having stolen more than half a million dollars from an elderly patient suffering from severe dementia, CBS reports.
Four of the six Filipinos, who were arrested in Bangkok for allegedly stealing jewelry worth more than 6 million Baht (approximately P8.4 million) last week, pleaded guilty to the charges, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs.
A British tourist and his Bulgarian companion reported losing travel documents and credit cards to pickpockets inside a Light Rail Transit (LRT) train on Friday afternoon in Manila.
Police are investigating the alleged theft of a Japanese man’s car in Pasig City before dawn Friday, police said.
