{"id":69668,"date":"2016-01-28T01:48:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T06:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=69668"},"modified":"2016-01-28T01:48:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T06:48:32","slug":"calgarians-lose-thousands-after-money-remittance-business-shuts-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/01\/28\/calgarians-lose-thousands-after-money-remittance-business-shuts-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgarians lose thousands after money remittance business shuts down"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_28337\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28337\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_180078383.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28337\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28337\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_180078383.jpg\" alt=\"Shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_180078383.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_180078383-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A remittance company, SR Cash Remit, and its director, Marisyel Pilande, \u00a0are being investigated by the Calgary police following failure to send customers\u2019 money overseas, mostly to the Philippines, the Calgary Herald reported. Ms. Pilande, reportedly a native of Laguna, Philippines, is now out of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Remittances ranging from $200 to $15,000 for the period October to December 2015 failed to reach the beneficiaries.\u00a0 76 victims have come forward so far and authorities are encouraging those victimized to contact the police.\u00a0 Monies sent by remitters are \u201chard earned monies\u201d intended to help their families either for medication, pay off debts, for kids education and for Christmas celebrations. \u00a0Now, the possibility of recovering their loss is far from remote.<\/p>\n<p>Marisyel Pilande, has also been issued a warrant of arrest for failing to appear in court for charges filed against her for writing bounced cheque to Family Express. Family Express acted as intermediary between SR Cash Remit and the recipients of money sent by its customers.<\/p>\n<p>Three cheques issued by SR Cash Remit to Family Express bounced on July. The cheques amounting to $80,000 were endorsed to cover the remittances for the months of June and July.<\/p>\n<p>A week later, SR Cash Remit further failed to transfer $33,000 to Family Express. It also failed to pay Family Express of interests amounting to $3,500. The cash remittance centre owes Family Express a total $117,000.\u00a0 The case is now with the authorities says Family Express\u2019 President .<\/p>\n<p>A note was posted on the now shut-down Marlborough Mall office of SR Cash Remit stating that \u00a0the location is closed and SR Cash Remit has financial issues and customers\u00a0 are advised to contact the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A remittance company, SR Cash Remit, and its director, Marisyel Pilande, \u00a0are being investigated by the Calgary police following failure &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":28337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-69668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-rewrite","mauthors-katherine-padilla","mauthors-laarni-liwanag","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69668","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}