BY FELIPE CELINO
ROXAS City — Twenty-two Capiceños have fallen victims to an alleged multimillion-peso investment scam, one of them told Panay News.
Most of them were well-known personalities and businessmen in this city and the province, said the source, herself a daughter of a Filipino-Chinese businessman here.
She said a certain Julio Jaime duped her and her friends into investing millions of pesos in the Pilipinas Productions and Entertainment and the Pilipinas Entrepreneurial Economic Development Corp. (PEEDC).
Jaime convinced her in May to put in an amount for the production of magazines and for advertisement transactions in newsletters, said the source who asked not to be identified.
The source said she earned five percent of the half-a-million pesos that she invested for the publications’ first and second runs.
For the third run, she received from Jaime a check worth P750,000. But that check bounced, she said.
Jaime was reportedly the president of the Barangay Councilors League of the Philippines and was accused of running a multimillion-peso investment scam that defrauded many across the country.
The source said she has tried to reach Jaime but could not. She told Panay News that she has already filed an estafa case against Jaime before the City Prosecutor’s Office here.
An online report said a woman identified as Sharipa, who mans the Jaime’s office in Jamboree St., Quezon City, said her boss has not showed up for some time now. “We have no idea where he is and when he is reporting to office.”
Jaime founded the Pilipinas Production in 2010 and the PEEDC in October last year, said a source from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) who refused to be identified investigation is ongoing.
The victims, mostly young businessmen, “were encouraged to come out after the Aman Futures Group and Jachob Rasuman were exposed,” the NBI source said.
Reports also had it that the scam was “similar to [that of the] Aman Futures Group,” according to one of the victims.
