SEC hunts down Decentra investment scam
MANILA - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken down another investment scam promising fast and guaranteed returns from cryptocurrencies in an entrapment operation that resulted in the arrest of 19 individuals. In a joint operation on June 11, the combined forces of the SEC Enforcement and Investor Protection Department (EIPD) and Philippine National Police Anti-Cybercrime Group (PNP-ACG) arrested the officers of Decentra while in the act of soliciting investments from the public without the requisite license during a seminar or business presentation in a hotel in Quezon City. ...