00:00 One lawyer and three others were arrested for helping in the investment scam.
00:06 Millions of people were arrested, including some mayors and police members.
00:13 John Consulta was the one who was arrested.
00:15 A lawyer and three others were arrested in the NBI Cybercrime Division.
00:23 They were trapped in a five-star hotel in Paranaque.
00:26 The complainant complained to the NBI that he lost his 3 million pesos
00:31 after he received 150,000 pesos in monthly income from the investments in cryptocurrency and junkets in the casino.
00:38 It hurts because I considered him as a friend and I trusted him.
00:41 Imagine, I was already crazy.
00:43 Then I made a profit again and investors called me again.
00:48 That's the time I was brought to the NBI.
00:51 Our complainant complained that he paid 150,000 pesos as his first monthly income.
00:58 But then the rest of the money went to waste.
01:01 The 3 million pesos check also went to waste.
01:04 Our investor couldn't get anything even if he tried.
01:08 According to the NBI, many people were victims of the group who checked in in a hotel room
01:14 where 300,000 pesos was charged every day.
01:17 There were victims of the group including the mayor, colonel, general and tens of millions were invested.
01:24 We tried to get the arrested people to confess but they refused to speak.
01:28 We will file a case for syndicated staff under revised penal code in relation of course to 10175
01:35 but at the same time under securities regulation code in our investment act.
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