{"id":35428,"date":"2014-12-14T19:16:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T11:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=35428"},"modified":"2014-12-14T19:18:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T11:18:39","slug":"p-noy-reports-nice-development-in-alleged-swindlers-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/14\/p-noy-reports-nice-development-in-alleged-swindlers-case\/","title":{"rendered":"P-noy reports &#8216;nice development&#8217; in alleged swindler\u2019s case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_80617813.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35430\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_80617813.jpg\" alt=\"embezzlement_shutterstock_80617813\" width=\"500\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_80617813.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_80617813-300x277.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the bilateral meeting held on Thursday in Busan, President Aquino and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak discussed the case of Manuel Amalilio; the suspect in a multibillion-peso estafa controversy in which thousands of Filipino investors were victimized.<\/p>\n<p>While Aquino opted not to delve into details about the discussion, he did describe it as as \u201ca nice development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amalilio escaped to Sabah in 2012, after running a Ponzi scheme by which he fooled as many as 15,000 Filipinos to invest their money into his company, Aman Futures Group.<\/p>\n<p>He was apprehended in Kota Kinabalu in 2013 for possession of a phony Philippine passport. In Malaysia, the alleged embezzler goes by the Mohammad Suffan Saaid.<\/p>\n<p>A Kota Kinabalu court sentenced him to two years in prison Amalilio, but is now ordering his release.<\/p>\n<p>The court has likewise denied the Philippine government\u2019s request for Amalilio\u2019s extradition to the Philippines, in order for him to face the charges for his criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice has vowed to exert all efforts to reverse the Malaysian court\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the bilateral meeting held on Thursday in Busan, President Aquino and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak discussed the case &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":35430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}