THE National Bureau of Investigation’s Mandaue District Office has received additional complaints a week after it raided an alleged networking company in Lapu-Lapu City that was in fact operating a scam.
NBI 7 Director Rennan Oliva revealed Tuesday that more than 10 persons went to NBI 7’s Mandaue office to file complaints against JStore Innovation Worldwide a week after they raided the store last Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in Barangay Pajo, Lapu-Lapu City.
The raid was conducted at the JStore office in MTC Shang Building on ML Quezon Highway, said to be the main branch of the company that has 114 branches nationwide.
The additional complainants came from different places in Metro Cebu like the cities of Cebu, Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu.
The raid was based on the complaints from clients that the company had defrauded them of their investments under the pretext of a multi-level marketing scheme.
According to the complainants, they invested P10,000 in the company in exchange for selling its products such as coffee, liniments, balms, juice mix drinks, health supplements, soaps and cosmetics.
But what lured them to invest was the promise that their money would double within 100 days regardless of whether the goods worth the value of their investment were sold or not.
One of the initial complainants, who declined to be named, said the company forced them to re-invest another P10,000 after reaching the minimum investment amount, but the promised bonus from their investment was never…
