CICC hails conviction of 17 Chinese for running Iloilo City cyberscam den

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The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) welcomed the conviction of 17 Chinese nationals  who were arrested in a suspected cyberscam den in Iloilo City in  November last year.

Iloilo City Regional Trial  Court Judge Victorino Maniba ruled that  the Chinese nationals violated the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act, the Revised Penal Code and the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, when they forced workers to  engage in a lustful conversations over the phone and  do lascivious  exhibition of  body parts.

The convicts were sentenced  four to eight months in prison and ordered to  pay  P75,000  each. In July, the convicts  have applied for a plea bargain.

CICC Executive Director Alexander K. Ramos said that the conviction  of the 17 Chinese nationals will send a strong signal to cyberscam operators that their days are numbered.

“This  will show  that we  are determined to go after and punish cyberscammers,” he said. “We shall continue to go after these cyberscammers and we will  find them because we have the capability.”

Ramos also thanked all the government agencies involved in the successful  prosecution  of the 17 Chinese nationals.

“The success of this  operation in Iloilo  City is proof that the  whole-of-government  approach will yield to successful  result in ending cybercrime,” he  emphasized..

The  raid on the cyberscam den located in Barangay Lawa-an in Jaro District  on  Nov. 4, 2023 was made on the strength of a search warrant issued by Iloilo City Regional Trial Court Branch 39 after more than a month of surveillance.

Seized were 24 computers, 49 cellular phones, two switch hubs TP-link with 24 ports, two routers, one projector, one monitor, one modem, and one bundle and four boxes of subscriber identity module (SIM) cards.

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