Investors fear Emgoldex recruiter will flee to Canada
A number of domestic workers who invested in the Emgoldex scam have expressed their concern that one of their reruiters is going to Canada.
The investors said that a fellow domestic worker, identified as MJ, recruited many of them to join Emgoldex but they have learned that she was now planning to go to Canada.
MJ denied claims that she was leaving Hong Kong.
“Ano ba ang ikinakatakot nila? Sa first week of June, mababayaran ko na ang obligasyon ko sa kanila,” said MJ, who was identified as as the recruitment leader for the fraudulent investment scheme of Emgoldex and its affiliate entities Global Intergold, and Prosperous Infinite Philippines Holdings Corp.
“May pinirmahan ako sa Consulate, at maibabalik ko ‘yung P255,000 para sa seven accounts sa Emgoldex na hindi na-encode,” MJ said in a telephone interview.
Vice Consul Alex Vallespin said the Filipino women who complained against MJ had asked him if they could bar the latter from leaving Hong Kong.
Vallespin said he told the complainants that the PCG could only forward their complaint to the Office of the Undersecretary for Migrants Workers Affairs (OUMWA), and a court case, if warranted, could be filed against those who duped them into investing in the bogus scheme.
“Sabi ko sa kanila, kahit sa Pilipinas, ang korte lang ang magsasabi kung ang isang akusado ay hindi paalisin ng bansa,” Vallespin said.
MJ, on the other hand, also said the information taht she was leaving for Canada was misleading since it was her Canada-based girlfriend who would be arriving in Hong Kong soon.
“Matagal pa iyang sa Canada, plano pa lang iyan at saka depende pa iyan sa girlfriend ko,”MJ said.
She added that alhough she initially said that she would return the money of Emgoldex investors whose accounts have yet to be encoded out of her salary, her family has decided to sell a farm lot in Occidental Mindoro where they live.
“Nalaman kasi ng pamilya ko, kaya ayun may buyer kami ng farm lot at hinihinitay lang naming bumaba sa barko,” she said.
The complainants alleged that MJ was able to buy a car and a water refilling station business in the Philippines from her Emgoldex earnings. They also said she used to brag that she received a P2-million bonus because she had 13 accounts in Emgoldex.
When these details were revealed during the February 21 meeting between the complainants and MJ at the PCG on February 21, MJ remained silent.
During the meeting in the PCG it was alleged that 488 Filipinos in Hong Kong as well as their kin have invested P36,000 in a single account in Emgoldex. MJ said those she would be unable
to refund the money of those investors whose accounts have been activated because the money is now with the “Germany- based” company.
Asked if she had been communicating with the complainants, MJ said she regularly receives “curses” and “hate” messages from them.
Meanwhile, Attaché Hermogenes Cayabyab Jr. of the Assistance to National Section said 17 of those who confronted MJ in a meeting held at the PCG on February have submitted the required documents so they could draft the complaint affidavit against MJ and other Emgoldex leaders.
The Legal Section of the PCG will draft the joint complaint affidavit, which will then be signed by the complainants.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Manila has sued Emgoldex, Global Intergold, and Prosperous Infinite for allegedly selling unregistered securities without a license. As early as February 20, 2015, the SEC issued an advisory against investing in Emgoldex.
Emgoldex leaders earlier claimed that investing P1,000 in the “Pinoy Style Patak Patak” could earn the invetors P5,000 to P10,000.
A placement of P35,000 will have an interest of between P180,000 and P360,000.