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V and V Estafa Case
V and V Estafa Case
of Davao ) S.S.x----------------------------------- x
JOINT COMPLAINT-AFFIDAVIT
The undersigned
Complainants
, ANDY D. PATRICIO, CATHERINECAMAROTE, JS JOHNAREY B. ROSAPA, BENIDA
S. RAMOS, JOVYABAD and GIANCARLA RIVAS all of legal age, Filipinos, whose
addressesare stated hereunder, after having been sworn in accordance with law,hereby
depose and state that:1.
This criminal action is being filed to hold into account the FOUNDERS,OWNERS,
OPERATORS and PROPRIETORS as well as the namedCO-CONSPIRATORS of
CROWD ROYALS REAL ESTATESERVICES, an enterprise operating on the funds
solicited from thepublic, conspiring or confederating with and mutually helping
oneanother, and confederating as a syndicate, by means of false pretensesor fraudulent
acts executed prior to or simultaneously with thecommission of fraud to the effect that
Respondents have the business,property and power to solicit and accept investments
from the generalpublic, when in truth and in fact, they have no license or authorityfrom
the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to do so, andcapacity to pay the
investors of CROWD ROYALS REAL ESTATESERVICES, including the undersigned
Complainants, the guaranteed50% to 200% monthly interest on said investments and
by means ofother deceits of similar import, induced and succeeded in inducing
theundersigned Complainants to invest, deposit, give and deliver to theRespondents
money as investments, Respondents knowing fully wellthat said pretenses and
representations are fraudulent scheme toenable them to obtain said amount, and
thereafter, having in theirpossession said amount, with intent to gain and to
defraud,misappropriated and converted the same to their own personalbenefits to the
damage and prejudice of the undersignedComplainants, in the aforementioned
amount.2.
When the following Respondents committed the foregoing actsattributed to them in this
Complaint, they did so while being the
FOUNDERS, OWNERS, CEO’s
of CROWD ROYALS REAL ESTATESERVICES and their other CO-CONSPIRATORS,
whose last knownaddresses are stated below their names, where they may be
servedwith the processes of this Honorable Office:
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i.
EDMON QUINONEZ
, Co-Owner, Co-Founder and Proprietor ofCROWD ROYALS REAL ESTATE
SERVICES, with last knownaddress at K. 18, Purok 13, Tibungco, Davao Cityii.
JUDY ANN DELATINA-ESTRELLA
, Co-Owner, Co-Founder andProprietor of CROWD ROYALS REAL ESTATE
SERVICES, withlast known address at Camp Catitipan, Davao City.iii.
ARMANDO “MAX” OPPUS
, Co-Owner, Co-Founder andProprietor of CROWD ROYALS REAL ESTATE
SERVICES, withlast known address Lunar Street, Dona Vicenta Village, Bajada,Davao
City, Philippinesiv.
PO3 PETERNO EREDYL PALAMOS ESTRELLA
, COCONSPIRATOR, husband of JUDY ANN DELATINA-ESTRELLAwith last know
address at Camp Catitipan, Davao City.v.
TOMMY TOM CASAS,
CO CONSPIRATOR, with last knownaddress at La Verna Subdivision
NATURE OF THE CHARGES
3.
The undersigned Complainants charge Respondents with SyndicatedEstafa defined
and penalized under Article 315 (2) (a) of the RevisedPenal Code in relation to Section
1 of Presidential Decree No. 1680, asamended by Republic Act 10951 AND for violation
of Section 8 inrelation to Section 73 of the Securities and Regulation Code
(R.A.8799).4.
The violations arose out of the Respondents’
deliberate, willful andmalicious acts or omissions by means of false pretenses
and/orfraudulent schemes and machinations, to the effect that Respondentsmade it
deceptively appear that they have the business, property andpower to solicit and accept
investments from the general public, whenin truth and in fact, they have no license or
authority from theSecurities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to do so, and
likewisemade it fraudulently appear that they have the capacity to pay theinvestors of
CROWD ROYALS RELAT ESTATE SERVICES includingthe undersigned
Complainants, the guaranteed monthly interest onsaid investments and by means of
other deceits of similar import,induced and succeeded in inducing the undersigned
Complainants toinvest, deposit, give and deliver to the Respondents money
asinvestment, without payment of the same, to the damage andprejudice of the
undersigned Complainants.
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BRIEF STATEMENTS OF RELEVANT FACTS ANDCIRCUMSTANCES
1.
From April 9, 2019, to circa, July 26, 2019, herein RESPONDENTSEDMON
QUINONEZ, JUDY-ANNE DELATINA-ESTRELLA and
ARMANDO “MAX” OPPUS, as founders, owners and operators of
CROWD ROYALS REAL ESTATE SERVICES, as well as their CO-CONSPIRATORS,
the RESPONDENTS, PO3 PETERNO EREDYLPALAMOS ESTRELLA and TOMMY
“
TOM
”
CASAS, has beencollecting, gathering and or otherwise taking money from the
public,including herein Complainants, through or by means of false
pretensesand misrepresentations.2.
The modus operandi of herein Respondents is briefly synthesized asfollows:First,
Respondents, EDMON QUINONEZ, JUDY-ANNE DELATINA-
ESTRELLA and ARMANDO “MAX” OPPUS, as founders, owners and
operators, would hold out to the public, including hereincomplainants, that Crowd
Royals Real Estate Services is a UnitedStates based Company dealing in the buying
and selling of securities,such as the Foreign Exchange and Gold, with international
basedtraders.Thereafter, herein Respondents would inform herein complainantsand the
investing public,
that if the latter, would give or “invest” their
money in Crowd Royals Real Estate Services (hereinafter referred to as
“pay
-
ins”)
, the complainants would receive a guaranteed interest of50% to 200% after the lapse
of 30 to 45 days (hereinafter referred to as
“payouts”)
. An alternative fraudulent scheme by which therespondents would entice the investing
public is that upon thepayment of the latter of 25% of the value of a particular real
property,after the lapse of 30-45 days, the property would now belong to theone who
paid the said 25% value thereof.Another modus operandi, presumably in order for the
respondents toattract more of the investing public in different parts of the Philippinesor
particularly Mindanao, is that the Respondents, through the samefalse and fraudulent
misrepresentations previously stated, offeredseveral proposals to herein complainants.
The proposal was to theeffect that a small commission would be paid to the
complainants, ifthe latter would agree that payment to Crowd Royals Real Estate
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Services would be coursed through them or received by them, atdifferent points in
Mindanao, which includes but is not limited to,Digos City, Kapalong, Banay-Banay and
Malita and thereafter remit ordeliver said payments to Crowd Royals Real Estate
Services withrespondents EDMON QUINONEZ, JUDY-ANNE DELATINA-
ESTRELLA and ARMANDO “MAX” OPPUS, as founders, owners and
operators thereof.Relying in Good Faith on the incessant false assurances and
fraudulentmachinations of herein respondents, the complainants agreed on theafore-
cited proposal of respondents EDMON QUINONEZ, JUDY-ANNE DELATINA-
ESTRELLA and ARMANDO “MAX” OPPUS, as
founders, owners and operators of Crowd Royals Real Estate Services.Herein
Respondents, EDMON QUINONEZ, JUDY-ANNEDELATINA-
ESTRELLA and ARMANDO “MAX” OPPUS, as
founders, owners and operators of Crow Royals Real Estate Serviceswould constantly
and repetitively assure, guarantee and promise thecomplainants that they had the
necessary authority to conduct thiskind of business and that Crowd Royals Real Estate
Services wasindeed a legitimate enterprise.To perpetrate further the fraud committed by
the respondents to thedamage and prejudice of herein Complainants, the
guaranteedinterests, as well as the capital invested of the investing public waspaid
and/or otherwise delivered by the respondents, in the early partof the scam. Thereby
adding a sense of false legitimacy to the businessin furtherance of the fraudulent
scheme of herein respondents.It should also be noted that all the pay-ins received are
delivered andtransmitted to either Edmon Quinonez, Judy Anne Delatina-Estrella
and Armando “Max” Oppus
at the end of every working day. This isevidenced by the
logbook
, which has entries of the amounts receivedby the latter persons and the date of receipt
with their correspondingsignature.
Copies of the entries of the Logbook are hereto attached as Annex “A”,
with sub-markings, and made an integral part of this Joint-AffidavitComplaint.However,
not all transactions were recorded in this Logbook, as thereare times when
the respondents would take the money personally andwould not report it to the Crowd
Real Estate office and its employees.
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The fraudulent machinations of the respondents came full circle whenthe respondents,
sometime on July 26, 2019, disappeared, taking withthem several hundreds of millions
of pesos, which are supposed to bepaid to the investors, which includes herein
complainants.The participation of respondents, PO3 PETERNO EREDYL
PALAMOSESTRELLA and TOMMY TOM CASAS as co
–
conspirators, involvedthe taking of the cash from the investors and delivering them
to any ofthe three founders, operators and owners of Crowd Royal Real EstateServices,
despite not being the cashiers of Crowd Royals Real EstateServices. PO3 PETERNO
EREDYL PALAMOS ESTRELLA andTOMMY TOM CASAS are not even employees of
Crowd Royal RealEstate Services and are not part of the payroll. PO3
PETERNOEREDYL PALAMOS ESTRELLA and TOMMY TOM CASAS wouldalso
accompany EDMON QUINONEZ, JUDY-ANNE DELATINA-ESTRELLA or
ARMANDO “MAX” OPPUS
, as the case may be, insome meetings with investors and would almost always be
seentogether with them. PO3 PETERNO EREDYL PALAMOS ESTRELLAand TOMMY
TOM CASAS disappeared together with EDMONQUINONEZ, JUDY-ANNE DELATINA-
ESTRELLA and ARMANDO
“MAX” OPPUS
.3.
The above-described fraudulent modus operandi of the respondentsbegan as early as
April 9, 2019. As this is the earliest record of Pay-insby the investing public to EDMON
QUINONEZ, JUDY-ANNEDELATINA-ESTRELLA
and ARMANDO “MAX” OPPUS
as ownersand operators of Crowd Royals Real Estate Services.As evidence of
the foregoing, Several Membership Forms dated April9, 2019, stating the names of the
investors, their addresses, who aremostly from Davao City, the amount paid by the said
investor andbearing the name and Logo of Crowd Royals Real Estate Services, is
hereby attached as Annex “
B
” and made an integral part of this Joint
Affidavit Complaint.4.
On April 22, 2019, the Office of Crowd Royal Real Estate Services,located at Salvacion
Panabo, Davao del Norte, with , EdmonQuinonez, Judy Anne Delatina-
Estrella and Armando “Max” Oppus
as founders, owners and proprietors thereof, opened and had its soft-launching.