'Munti' jail for deported Pinay from Canada

The woman deported from Canada on Jan 20 for involvement in a P250-million pyramid-type of scam may soon be transferred to the national penitentiary in Muntinlupa to serve a conviction for violations of the bouncing checks law. Dr. Richard Dizon, head of the medical and dental services of the House of Representatives, has been closely coordinating with the Quezon City regional trial court for Janice del Rosario, 44, to serve the sentences on eight counts of violations of Batas Pambansa Blg. 22, known as the bouncing checks law of 1979. Del Rosario has been detained with her husband Kaye, 33, in a room at the Quezon City police district’s Station 6 located just across the House of Representatives complex near Commonwealth avenue. BP 22 carries a jail term of 30 days to one year or fine of up to double the amount swindled, or both imprisonment and fine at the court's discretion. Dizon said the QC RTC’s Branch 98 convicted del Rosario -- who used the name Flordeliza Kong Pace Tayzon – in April 1998 yet, five years before she fled to Canada with millions of pesos in “investments" of people who “loaned" her at a monthly interest of five to 10 percent. Kaye, a former jail guard in San Juan where she met Janice while serving term for fraud, was not included in the case filed by Dizon because they were not yet together in those times. The Quezon City court, he said, will soon summon del Rosario for a reading of the verdict of conviction then, order her detention to the New Bilibid Prisons in Muntinlupa. “We are just preparing to present in court a Certificate of Custody from the police, and the judge will issue the summons," he told GMANews.TV. A new case of syndicated estafa, a non-bailable offense that carries a life sentence, is set to be filed against del Rosario next week. Dizon said del Rosario just disappeared with P700,000 of his life savings that he and his wife placed in a “re-discounting" lending scheme that should earn 10 percent monthly. “I think she gave us one or two checks that were good. We started in 1994 with an investment of P150,000 which was part of the proceeds of the sale of our house. Because she was very good at convincing people, my wife gave her more," Dizon told GMANews.TV. He said he knew del Rosario as “Flor Tayzon" through his wife’s friend who also works at the House of Representatives. “We trusted her. Who wouldn’t trust her? She was very articulate, religious, good looking, and even pregnant that time we were dealing with her," Dizon said. “She was very generous. She even gifted my wife with a necklace, unaware that that was part of the money we invested. She was even inviting us to her condominium unit in Mandaluyong and she was also attending a charismatic fellowship in Greenhills," the physician recalled. Dizon said del Rosario was still with her first husband that time and that she introduced herself as a dentist. “She was very manipulative. I was thinking that maybe she used some kind of a charm to hypnotize her potential victims," he said. “We have been looking for her for many years. We did not know she had left the country. We only found out that she had gone to Canada with her children after news came out that she had been deported," Dizon said. “We felt betrayed. We are pursuing this because we don’t want her to victimize other persons. This has got to stop," Dizon said. Del Rosario is facing many more cases, mostly estafa, swindling, violations of the bouncing checks law and prostitution in courts in Pangasinan, Paranaque, Las Pinas, Makati, San Juan and Pasig. - GMANews.TV