The National Bureau of Investigation now has custody of a sports car allegedly owned by Manuel Amalilio, the man said to be behind the Aman Futures investment scam.
Justice Secretary Leila De Lima made the announcement Friday, adding the 2012 Lamborghini Gallardo 560 Coupe Regolare was recovered at BSA Twin Towers in Mandaluyong City. The sports car was allegedly left there by a certain Shaffic Risaib Shah.
“We will ask the panel (of prosecutors handling the syndicated estafa case) to seek a court order to open the car,” De Lima said in a Sun Star Online report. She said the importation of the car, estimated to be worth P17.1 million, can be considered a suspicious transaction.
Amalilio is currently in Malaysia and is serving a two-year prison sentence there for having a fake Philippine passport. The Department of Justice will be sending a team of prosecutors to extradite him and to begin forfeiture proceedings against him.
The Aman Futures group has been accused of scamming around P12 billion from around 15,000 victims in the Visayas and in Mindanao.
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