CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – Lugging boxes of evidentiary documents, 25 persons trooped to the City of San Fernando Prosecutor’s Office here on Monday, Oct. 6, to file complaints for large-scale estafa against Pampanga 3rd District board member Estelito, aka Shiwen, Lim.
The complainants comprised the second batch of plaintiffs following the 19 individuals who also filed large-scale estafa cases against Lim on Sept. 29.
In their complaints, they cited non-payments of principal and interest for their investments, ranging individually from P50,000 to P1,000,000.
They alleged that Lim used his “influential” social media page to entice them to invest in his various business schemes including a restaurant, construction company, and shoe dealership.
Soon as Lim took office as board member last July, groups of individuals, including overseas Filipino workers, have started coming to the Pampanga Capitol claiming to have been “scammed” by Lim into turning over to him hard earned savings and retirement benefits in his investment schemes.
The complaint filed on Monday is just the most recent of Lim’s legal entanglements.
Garnishment
On July 28, 2025, the Municipal Trial Court in Cities Branch 2 issued a notice of garnishment – Civil Case Mo. 10761 (Collection of Sum of Money and Damages) – to the manager of Land Bank of the Philippines, JASA, City of San Fernando upon the account of Lim and “all other accounts…goods, stocks, interest in stocks and shares and any other personal properties” of Lim in the bank’s possession and control sufficient to cover P1,130,000 “with conventional interest of 6% per annum from May 30, 2023 until its full satisfaction.”
The garnishment was signed by Christian Anthony A. Concepcion, Sheriff III.
Sum of money writ
On Aug. 13, 2025, Sheriff Marvin Minay served a writ of execution from the Metropolitan Trial Court Branch 115, Taguig City against Lim ordering him to pay Zyneserve Inc. the amount of P435,528.95 and P8,556.18 (cost of suit) reckoned from July 12, 2024. The sheriff said it took them a year to determine where Lim could be found. His election to the board pointed them to the sangguniang panlalawigan office to serve the writ.
Arrest order
The Municipal Circuit Trial Court, Third Judicial Region in Mexico town issued a warrant of arrest signed August 11, 2025 by Presiding Judge Richard Gazzingan Evangelista against Lim for three counts of estafa.
Lim posted bail for this arrest warrant.
Lim strikes back
Claiming news reports of the legal actions against him as a violation of the Data Privacy Act of 2012, Lim has filed a complaint with the National Privacy Commission against Punto! Central Luzon, SunStar-Pampanga, CLTV-36, and iOrbit News Online last September.
Lim alleged in his complaint that the disclosure of his personal details indicated in his warrant of arrest that was published in media violated his privacy and “demonized” him in the public eye.
Punto News Team
