One of those arrested, Michael Cris Traya Sordilla, is also the chairman of the Hiyas ng Pilipinas pageant
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Sordilla is prominent in the beauty pageant industry as a judge and the chairman of the Hiyas ng Pilipinas pageant. Among the businesses he listed in his Facebook posts and on the Innocentrix Philippines website are MCS Group of Companies, MSordilla Builders, MCS Studio, and Serene Oasis Resort in Oslob, southern Cebu.
The three are accused of approaching authors and claiming that studios were interested in adapting their works into movies or TV series – provided they paid PageTurner first. “As part of the scam, the conspirators falsely represented that PageTurner was a book publishing business that worked with literary agents, major motion picture studios, and popular video streaming services, and that PageTurner acted as a liaison between individuals who sought to publish their books or have their books turned into motion pictures or television series.”
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