TWENTY-two residents of Bolinao trooped to the National Bureau of investigation (NBI) office in Dagupan City last Thursday to file complaints against One Dream Global Marketing.

NBI special investigator Diogenes Norlo Gallang said a case of syndicated estafa is set to be filed against Arnel Gacer, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of One Dream, resident of Camarines Sur along with Jobelle De Guzman, resident of Lipa City Batangas and Richard Ramos, vice president whose residence was the alleged main office business of the company in Quezon City.

“We are completing the necessary documents and we will file the case immediately”, said Gallang.

In the complaint affidavit of one of the victims, the complainant said sometime in June and July, Daryl Castro and Dariel Catabay residents in Barangay Germinal Bolinao, invited them to a gathering where Gacer presented the business offer.

“We were ask to pay Php888 for one slot and after four days we will earn Php1,300 as a pay-out window or exit. We can also earn Php 44 per slot by recruiting people who will invest. Since I am getting the promised income I invested some more up to Php562,992”.

The combined amount invested by the 22 complainants reached P50-million, Gallang said. Some invested P500,000 to P600,000 each or up to million pesos depending on the slots they availed themselves of.

Under the fraudulent investment scheme offered them, one investment which is equivalent to one slot amounts to P888 and would become P1,300 in just four days.

The person who recruited another investor would get additional P44 per slot.

“The more recruit and slots invested in, the bigger amount a person gets as his supposed incentive,” Gallang said.

He said two local contacts of the company who initiated gathering the clients are worried and apprehensive for the blame heaped on them by the victims.

These local contacts are the same people identified by some Metro Manila complainants, Gallang said.

The recruitment also spread to barangay Balintawak and Balingasay.
Gallang is encouraging more victims to come out to file appropriate legal actions against the suspects.

The initial 22 out of the more than 40 victims who came out were encouraged by their local officials to go to the NBI to complain.

He disclosed the company does not have a permanent existing business address, did not present necessary permits and issued unregistered receipts.

“We advise the public to be cautious and vigilant in investing their money in easy- money-making schemes”, Gallang said.

NBI Dagupan handled a Php13 billion investment scam case before prior to One Dream. (Tita Roces/ Hilda Austria)

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