A 38-year-old girl from Talisay Metropolis, Cebu was arrested on Monday, July 15, for allegedly printing and promoting pretend BIR TIN playing cards and PhilHealth IDs to her prospects in Cebu Metropolis and the province. | NBI-7 Photograph
CEBU CITY, Philippines – A 38-year-old girl from Talisay Metropolis, Cebu is dealing with felony prices for allegedly printing and promoting pretend BIR TIN playing cards and Philhealth playing cards to prospects throughout the province of Cebu.
The arrested suspect is believed to be a member of a big syndicate that has been working within the Philippines for a very long time.
Operatives of the Nationwide Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI-7) performed the operation towards the suspect on Monday night, July 15.
The accused was recognized as Geraldine Lomongo Tausa, 38, a resident of Purok Gabon, Lagtang, Talisay Metropolis, Cebu.
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Tausa was apprehended after authorities performed surveillance that led to her being recognized as the web reseller “Natashiwa Anata.”
By way of the factitious title, Tausa has allegedly been promoting and promoting pretend playing cards by way of a number of Fb teams.
NBI-7 brokers posing as prospects ordered a BIR TIN card from Tausa on-line and ultimately raided her residence on Monday.
Throughout the operation, they seized a complete of 240 pretend BIR TIN playing cards and 250 PhilHealth playing cards from Tausa’s possession.
As well as, they confiscated a laptop computer, printer, and cutter, which had been used within the manufacturing of the pretend playing cards.
In a press convention on Thursday, July 18, NBI-7 director Lawyer Renan Augustus Oliva narrated that the operation stemmed from a request by the BIR final April 17.
The company was reportedly alarmed by the proliferation of the fraudulent playing cards in Cebu after a person reportedly used a pretend BIR TIN card at their workplace.
When questioned on the place the pretend card was obtained, the person allegedly claimed that the transaction was executed on-line.
BIR, nevertheless, don’t provide on-line providers for acquiring TIN playing cards.
Due to this, the company sought the assistance of the NBI-7 to apprehend the perpetrators.
Oliva disclosed that they discovered that the suspect is a member of an organized crime group that has been working nationwide for a very long time.
The group consists of “printers” in control of printing the completed copies and “resellers” who straight transact with prospects utilizing fictitious names.
In response to Oliva, the pretend playing cards comprise QR codes which are illegally generated and don’t present the distinctive details about every taxpayer.
After the digital copies of the playing cards are made by a selected staff of the syndicate, they’re despatched to printers like Tausa, who will then print them out.
Oliva stated that whereas the pretend playing cards look similar to legit ones, the QR code is a giveaway of their authenticity.
The NBI-7 director additionally disclosed that they acquired info that there are a lot of extra “printers” and resellers from the syndicate who’re nonetheless working as of in the present day.
Furthermore, authorities consider that the top of the felony group is predicated outdoors of Cebu.
Oliva assured that their investigation is steady to apprehend different people like Tausa.
“That is nonetheless a unbroken investigation being executed by the NBI and the BIR to arrest all potential corporates of this felony exercise,” he acknowledged.
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On Wednesday, July 17, Tausa was subjected to inquest proceedings earlier than the Talisay Metropolis Prosecutor’s Workplace.
Costs for violation of Part 4 of the Revised Penal Code; the Cybercrime Legislation; and the Nationwide Inside Income Code, particularly for the falsification of public paperwork, had been filed towards her.
As of this writing, she stays detained on the custodial facility of the NBI-7 headquarters in Cebu Metropolis.
Following Tausa’s arrest, Lawyer Jay Rozen Bartazan from the BIR authorized division warned different felony personalities that they won’t cease till all perpetrators of such a crime are held accountable.
“Let this function a warning to those that are nonetheless engaged in such a printing of pretend TIN playing cards that the BIR, along with the NBI, will proceed to go in any case of you and there may be nowhere you may go the place the arms of the legislation will be unable to catch you,” he acknowledged.
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