Metrobank: Bank Executive Arrested for Fraud
Manila, Philippines - NBI urged to file more raps vs Metrobank VP.
The NBI has filed charges of qualified theft, falsification of documents and violations of the General Banking Law against Marivic Lopez, who was arrested on July 18.
Lopez, 54, was one of the bank’s 402 vice presidents.
Metrobank, as of April 27, 2017, had three senior executive vice presidents; nine executive vice presidents; 28 senior vice presidents; 59 first vice presidents; 109 vice presidents (Lopez’s rank); and 194 assistant vice presidents.
Lopez dealt directly with large corporate clients as vice president and head of the bank’s corporate management services division.
By forging signatures and breaching bank protocols, she was able to establish two bogus corporate loan accounts worth P950 million and P850 million.
She tried to mask the fraudulent loans as drawdowns from a legitimate P25-billion credit facility available to a corporate client, Universal Robina Corp. (URC), according to the NBI.
Here a post from Facebook page TOP CARS MANILA:
“I WAS SURPRISED” - SURPRISED FOR GETTING CAUGHT?!
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A BEAUTIFUL FACE DOESN’T MEAN ANYTHING WITHOUT A BEAUTIFUL HEART – Metrobank Fraud Suspect MARIA VICTORIA STA.ANA-LOPEZ (a.k.a. Marivic Lopez), age 53, owned the upscale MANAGE PREMIER SALON that runs five branches in posh communities and malls around Metro Manila, according to its owned official website. The same photo is seen in a Facebook account under the name MARIVIC STA ANA-LOPEZ, but has been deactivated after the NBI presented Lopez to the public on Friday, July 21, 2017, although her face was hidden beneath a silken scarf.
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‘I WAS SURPRISED’ MARIVIC LOPEZ said, she was in her office when NBI agents arrested her in an entrapment operation. When asked whether she worked alone, Lopez fell silent.
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LAVISH LIFESTYLE AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHERS MONEY: Lopez, who is a year short of retirement from the bank, lives in a posh village in Quezon City. She owns nine cars, the “cheapest” of which is a Range Rover. The officials did not say how many children Lopez has, but some of them, according to them, are in school in the United States.
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MARIVIC LOPEZ, a vice president at the corporate services unit of Metrobank’s head office in Makati City, has been arrested and charged for defrauding Metrobank in a scandal that sent the lender’s shares tumbling on July 2, 2107, Friday
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METROBANK, OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY GEAORGE TY, may have lost as much as P2.5 billion after the suspect allegedly funneled disbursed loans into fictitious accounts created in the name of one of the bank’s biggest corporate clients, Universal Robina Corp. (URC).
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EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND OF MARIVIC LOPEZ - A trusted employee of the bank for 30 years, earning a monthly salary of P250,000, Lopez was arrested on Monday while trying to move the stolen money to an unspecified personal account.
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BOGUS TRANSACTION :
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1. The loans issued by the bank turned out to be fictitious, as confirmed by the concerned client.
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2. Falsified documents including a letter dated June 30 bearing “dubious signatures.”
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3. On the day of entrapment, the client was supposed to pay P2.25 million for reprisal of the loan’s interest, which happens every quarter.
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4. As soon as Lopez gave instructions to debit the amount of P2.25 million from the client’s savings account, the bank issued a debit memo for her, as evidence of the processing of the transaction.
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5. It added that the bank created an account where the payment – in the form of manager’s check – would supposedly go.
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6. The client (Universal Robina Corp) also claimed having no idea about the account made for the payment of the interest.
- credits to the owner
Source: Democratika
