The government will employ diplomacy to bring back to the Philippines fugitive Manuel Amalilio, alleged brains of the Ponzi scheme that last year duped some 15,000 Filipinos of P12 billion, to face prosecution, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said Sunday. It has emerged that complaints of Malaysian scam victims in Kota Kinabalu—not Amalilio's possible ties with Sabah's chief minister—prompted Malaysian police to stop Amalilio's repatriation to Manila from Kota Kinabalu on Friday night, De Lima said. "It's more of diplomacy," she told the Inquirer when asked if the options included diplomacy or invoking the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT...
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