6/30/2021 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly minimum to seven (7) years, eight (8) months, and twenty-one (21) days of prision mayor as maximum. Furthermore, accused-appellant is hereby ordered to indemnify private complainant Edgardo M. Ramirez, Jr. the amount of thirty-four thousand pesos (PhP34,000.00). 4. Interest at the rate of 6% per annum is imposed on the civil liabilities awarded, to be computed from the finality of this decision until such amounts are fully paid. SO ORDERED. (Emphasis and italics in the original) [23] Act No. 4103, as amended. [24] CA rollo, pp. 232-238. [25] An Act Adjusting the Amount or the Value of Property and Damage on which a Penalty is Based, and The Fines Imposed Under the Revised Penal Code, Amending for the Purpose Act No. 3815, Otherwise Known as "The Revised Penal Code, as Amended" (2017). [26] Rollo, pp. 2-11. [27] Id. at 9-10. [28] People v. Matheus, 810 Phil. 626, 636 (2017). [29] CA rollo, p. 128. [30] Id. at 209-210. [31] People v. Mateo, 759 Phil. 179, 183-184 (2015). [32] See People v. Ganigan, 584 Phil. 710 (2008). [33] People v. Gallo, 630 Phil. 153, 168-169 (2010). [34] People v. Tolentino, 762 Phil. 592, 614 (2015). [35] People v. Mateo, supra note 31, at 184. [36] See People v. Racho, 819 Phil. 137 (2017). [37] The relevant provision, as amended, reads: SEC. 85. Article 315 of the same Act, as amended by Republic Act No. 4885, Presidential Decree No. 1689, and Presidential Decree No. 818, is hereby further amended to read as follows: ART. 315. Swindling (estafa). - Any person who shall defraud another by any of the means mentioned hereinbelow shall be punished by: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/66642 12/13