A 38-year-old lady 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 clients in Cebu Metropolis and the province. | NBI-7 Picture
CEBU CITY, Philippines – A 38-year-old lady from Talisay Metropolis, Cebu is dealing with legal fees for allegedly printing and promoting pretend BIR TIN playing cards and Philhealth playing cards to clients 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 in opposition to 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 net reseller “Natashiwa Anata.”
Via the factitious identify, Tausa has allegedly been promoting and promoting pretend playing cards by means of a number of Fb teams.
NBI-7 brokers posing as clients ordered a BIR TIN card from Tausa on-line and ultimately raided her residence on Monday.
In the course of 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 completed on-line.
BIR, nevertheless, don’t supply 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” answerable for printing the completed copies and “resellers” who immediately transact with clients utilizing fictitious names.
In keeping with Oliva, the pretend playing cards comprise QR codes which might be illegally generated and don’t present the distinctive details about every taxpayer.
After the digital copies of the playing cards are made by a particular 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 respectable ones, the QR code is a giveaway of their authenticity.
The NBI-7 director additionally disclosed that they obtained info that there are numerous extra “printers” and resellers from the syndicate who’re nonetheless working as of immediately.
Furthermore, authorities imagine that the pinnacle of the legal group is predicated exterior of Cebu.
Oliva assured that their investigation is steady to apprehend different people like Tausa.
“That is nonetheless a unbroken investigation being completed by the NBI and the BIR to arrest all attainable corporates of this legal exercise,” he said.
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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 in opposition to 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 legal personalities that they won’t cease till all perpetrators of the sort of crime are held accountable.
“Let this function a warning to those that are nonetheless engaged in the sort of printing of pretend TIN playing cards that the BIR, along with the NBI, will proceed to go in spite of everything of you and there may be nowhere you may go the place the arms of the legislation won’t be able to catch you,” he said.
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