A 38-year-old girl from Talisay Metropolis, Cebu was arrested on Monday, July 15, for allegedly printing and promoting faux BIR TIN playing cards and PhilHealth IDs to her clients in Cebu Metropolis and the province. | NBI-7 Photograph
CEBU CITY, Philippines – A 38-year-old girl from Talisay Metropolis, Cebu is going through prison costs for allegedly printing and promoting faux 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 giant 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.”
By way of the factitious identify, Tausa has allegedly been promoting and promoting faux playing cards via a number of Fb teams.
NBI-7 brokers posing as clients ordered a BIR TIN card from Tausa on-line and finally raided her residence on Monday.
Through the operation, they seized a complete of 240 faux 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 faux 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 faux BIR TIN card at their workplace.
When questioned on the place the faux card was obtained, the person allegedly claimed that the transaction was completed on-line.
BIR, nevertheless, don’t provide on-line companies 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” accountable for printing the completed copies and “resellers” who straight transact with clients utilizing fictitious names.
In line with Oliva, the faux 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 particular crew of the syndicate, they’re despatched to printers like Tausa, who will then print them out.
Oliva mentioned that whereas the faux playing cards look similar to reliable 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 as we speak.
Furthermore, authorities imagine that the pinnacle of the prison group relies exterior of Cebu.
Oliva assured that their investigation is steady to apprehend different people like Tausa.
“That is nonetheless a seamless investigation being completed by the NBI and the BIR to arrest all doable corporates of this prison 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.
Prices for violation of Part 4 of the Revised Penal Code; the Cybercrime Regulation; and the Nationwide Inner 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 prison personalities that they won’t cease till all perpetrators of any such crime are held accountable.
“Let this function a warning to those that are nonetheless engaged in any such printing of faux TIN playing cards that the BIR, along with the NBI, will proceed to go in spite of everything of you and there’s nowhere you possibly can go the place the arms of the legislation won’t be able to catch you,” he acknowledged.
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