AGENTS of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Cebu and Manila arrested a woman yesterday for allegedly demanding money from an American finance adviser, who is married to an actress.
Ancy Dieto, 21, who hails from Pitogo, Ubay, Bohol, was caught in the act of receiving the P2 million she allegedly asked from him in exchange for keeping private a video taken of them while staying together in one Cebu City hotel.
Dieto was arrested while getting money from a representative of John Bryan, the finance adviser.
“There is no video, only a photo of me with my arms around him,” a tearful Dieto said in Cebuano after the arrest. She also denied making any demand, just a follow-up of something that the businessman supposedly promised her when they first became a couple in 2007.
She said she met Bryan through an Internet dating website that year. She was 17 at that time and was new to Cebu City, where she found work as an employee of a stall selling China-made goods on Colon St.
Same hotel
She said Bryan came to the Philippines and he made her stay with him for a couple of days in the same hotel.
“He said he would marry me in two years and buy a house for me and my grandparents. I gave myself to him,” Dieto said.
But two years had passed and no marriage proposal came, she said.
