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Monday, July 31, 2006
Citom issues warning to counterfeiters
THE Cebu City Traffic Operations Management (Citom) warns others planning to falsify Citom identification cards that they, too, will be arrested.
Authorities this weekend collared two persons involved in manufacturing fake government documents like Citom IDs and City Hall receipts.
Police first handcuffed Alfredo Caballero of Barangay Camputhaw last Friday for allegedly selling fake Citom IDs to public utility jeepney drivers.
Entrapment
Maximo Adolfo, 51, of Barangay San Nicolas Proper was caught later in the day in an entrapment by the Vice Control Section.
Police said Adolfo was the maker of the IDs.
Citom executive officer Arnel Tancinco, in an interview, said they had been trying to catch the two since last year.
Sensing that Citom was already on their heels, Adolfo and Caballero temporarily stopped their illegal activity.
When they resumed last month, Citom coordinated with the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Bureau which designated Senior Inspector George Ylanan to create a team to go after the two men.
Tancinco said he expects the making of fake ID cards to cease with the arrest of Adolfo and Caballero.
But others might follow, and Citom will be after them as soon as they are traced, he warned.
No amount
Tancinco said Citom could not really quantify what it lost in terms of revenue in issuing the IDs because these are just P80 each.
And it is the Citom employees’ cooperative that prints them.
The drivers who bought the IDs so they could skip paying their pending fines in getting the ID, will still have to pay the fines if they are caught violating traffic rules, he said.
Citom, in issuing the IDs, requires that the drivers get a clearance, which is given only after they pay pending fines.
The drivers are enticed to buy fake Citom IDs so they could get one without settling the fines. (RHM)
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