A CAMEROON national was arrested in an entrapment operation conducted by the agents of the National Bureau of Investigation-Southeastern Mindanao Region Office (NBI-Semro) on Wednesday evening, January 24.
NBI-Semro Regional Director lawyer Mario Tonelete said, as of 4 p.m., Thursday, charges were being readied for filing against the Cameroonian before the prosecutor for estafa and use of aliases and falsification.
The suspect was identified as Kamaha Dejuo Jeamluc, 29, from Central Africa. He was caught in the act of duping a prospective victim at a hotel inside Doña Vicenta, Davao City.
“Budol-budol ito na gumagawa ng pera sa harapan ng biktima. Pag-uwi ng biktima sa bahay, mga paper na parang money lang ang dala niya (It’s a budol-budol scheme wherein the suspect replaces the genuine money in front of the victim with an ordinary paper that looks like real money),” he said.
The operation was conducted in coordination with the Anti-Scam Unit of Davao City. The operatives recovered several fake IDs, black papers, chemicals used in his scam activities and the budol-budol money.
A few months ago, Tonelete said, they already received two complaints against the suspect for his fraudulent activities, promising to double the money of his target using a chemical but instead carts away their money.
As they got a similar complaint, the NBI set up the entrapment.
Tonelente said that the suspect is now under the custody of NBI-Semro.