A Filipina domestic helper who has successfully recruited fellow Filipina maids into investing into the Emgoldex scam is believed to be planning to go to Canada, according to a number of investors as reported by Hong Kong News.
The woman, identified as MJ denied claims she was leaving Hong Kong as she promised to settle in the next few months money she owed.
“Ano ba ang ikinakatakot nila? Sa first week of June, mababayaran ko na ang obligasyon ko sa kanila,” said MJ, who was identified as as the recruitment leader for the fraudulent investment scheme of Emgoldex and its affiliate entities Global Intergold, and Prosperous Infinite Philippines Holdings Corp.
In a telephone interview, MJ also claims to have made a written pledge at the Consulate that she will return the P255,000 for the seven accounts which were not encoded, referring to investments that were presumed to be in her possession.
Vice Consul Alex Vallespin of the Philippine Consulate General (PCG) in Hong Kong said the Filipino women who lodged a complain against MJ have asked him if they could bar the woman from leaving Hong Kong to which he said the PCG can only forward their complaint to the Office of the Undersecretary for Migrants Workers Affairs (OUMWA), and a court case, if warranted, could be filed against those who duped them into investing in the bogus scheme.
MJ said the rumors that she was leaving for Canada is misleading because it was her Canada-based girlfriend who is coming to Hong Kong soon.
“Matagal pa iyang sa Canada, plano pa lang iyan at saka depende pa iyan sa girlfriend ko,” MJ said, adding that her family has decided to sell a farm lot in Occidental Mindoro to settle the investment money she owed from investors.
The complainants have alleged that MJ was able to buy a car and a water refilling station business in the Philippines allegedly from her Emgoldex earnings. They also claimed she used to brag that she received a P2 million bonus because she had 13 accounts in Emgoldex. MJ remained mum to such claims which were disclosed in tri-party meeting at the PCG on Feb. 21.
The Securities and Exchange Commission had issued an advisory against investing in Emgoldex as early as February 20, 2015.
Emgoldex leaders earlier claimed that investing P1,000 in the “Pinoy Style Patak Patak” could earn the invetors P5,000 to P10,000. A placement of P35,000 will have an interest of between P180,000 and P360,000.