Two women nabbed for ‘rice investment scam’

By Glazyl Y. Masculino

BACOLOD City – Two women tagged behind the rice investment scam here and in Negros Occidental were arrested by police over the weekend.

Armed with an arrest warrant for swindling and two counts of estafa, police arrested Krizia Rhea Gonzaga and Jennifer Nierves last Saturday.

Police Major Jun Ray Batadlan, head of Police Station 4, said the arrest warrant was issued by Bacolod Municipal Trial Court in Cities Branch 6 Presiding Judge Karen Joy Tan-Gaston on July 26, 2021.

Batadlan said the court recommended P18,000 bail for each suspect, who are now detained at the said police station.

The case stemmed from the complaint filed by some clients of the two suspects before the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)-Bacolod in September 2020.

The NBI earlier said that the modus of the suspects is to invite their clients to invest in the rice trading and promised them a bigger investment.

The complainants reported to the NBI that the suspects allegedly scammed them for millions of pesos.

Batadlan said the suspects planned to post bail anytime soon.

They have yet to issue a statement regarding the accusations against them.