Notorious woman criminal arrested in Dagupan
A 57-year old woman with a string of different cases across the country and known to be a notorious illegal recruiter has fallen in an entrapment operation carried out recently by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Dagupan City.
The suspect, Luzviminda Mejon Borja, has been jailed at the Bureau of Corrections’ Institution for Women for robbery in band with double homicide but got a conditional pardon after serving nine years of her 20-year sentence.
Borja, who uses different addresses and many aliases such as Minda Elvira Maralit Jose and Luzviminda Marcos Borja, also has several cases of illegal recruitment, falsification of public documents and estafa, according to Tim Rejano, NBI Dagupan’s agent-on-case.
Rejano said the NBI Dagupan was unaware of Borja’s cases until a group of businesswomen filed a complaint at their office against the suspect for allegedly extorting from them P100,000 and threatening to have their establishment bombed if they do not give in to her demand.
Borja, showing the group her passbook supposedly containing P72 million which she claimed to have earned from diesel smuggling, promised to pay back the P100,000 once she is able to settle the hold order placed by the Anti-Money Laundering Council against her account.
The businesswomen, whose names were withheld, did not believe Borja whom they said tried to befriend them and get into their circle through gifts, although in one instance, a check issued by Borja to the group bounced.
Rejano said Borja’s threat to bomb the group’s establishment could have been real based on her case of robbery in band with double homicide in Bulacan that landed her in the Correctional Institution for Women when she was 39 years old.
During the entrapment operation for robbery-extortion last January 8 in a mall in Barangay Lucao in Dagupan, Borja’s live-in partner, Aniceto Soriano, 30, from Labrador town, Pangasinan was also nabbed for illegal possession of an unlicensed caliber .45.
Two fake drivers’ licenses bearing Borja’s different names were also seized.
Rejano said the NBI Dagupan has filed against Borja a robbery case and falsification of public documents, use of several names, grave threats at the Prosecutor’s Office and more than 10 other complainants are set to file cases against her.
Rejano added that they are waiting for the court’s disposition on where Borja should be detained based on several other cases she is facing.
OTHER CASES
Borja has pending cases for falsification of public documents, estafa which are all bailable and a case at a Manila court for illegal recruitment which is non-bailable.
Rejano said they prefer to turn Borja over to Manila to ensure that she stays locked up.
Borja escaped last year from the Manila Police Station that resulted in the filing of a case against the guard on duty, Police Officer 2 Carlito Borci.
Rejano said in Alaminos City, one of Borja’s victims is a policewoman, a member of the Scene of the Crime Operatives, who lost P360,000 for a supposed gasoline station business. .–Tita Roces
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