The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) has endorsed a letter seeking for the issuance of a Red Notice by the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) against a British national in connection with a multi-million peso estafa case leveled against him before a Pasay City court.
A Red Notice is a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender, or similar legal action.
In a letter addressed to the Ambassador Anthony Alcantara, special envoy on Transnational Crime, CIDG director Police Brig. Gen. Nicolas Torre III said the issuance of the Interpol Red Notice against Lavish Mohan Paryani is aligned with various laws in the Philippines, including the Anti-Money Laundering Act and the Human Security Act.
The laws that Torre cited in the letter mandate international cooperation to apprehend individuals involved in transnational crimes impacting Philippine entities.
“I respectfully urge the Philippine Center for Transnational Crime to coordinate with Interpol on this matter,” the letter read.
The endorsement letter was based on the request of lawyer Cecilio M. Jimeno Jr., who represents Rheana's Trading Inc. in connection with the estafa case.
The Department of Justice indicted Paryani and Reigna Reyes last month for violation of Article 315, Paragraph 2(D) of the Revised Penal Code (estafa). The case was filed before the Pasay Regional Trial Court which issued an arrest warrant on Oct. 11 against the accused.
Paryani already left the country before the arrest warrant was issued last month while the warrant was already served to Reyes.
Paryani's last known address is in Porter Ranch, California, U.S.A.