By EDWIN IYO Correspondent GINGOOG City -- Police arrested six men and a woman on suspicion of involvement in a crime group that specializes on cybersex in order to extort money from men overseas. The suspects were arrested in a raid at Door 8, Odette Apartment on Aquino and Veterans streets in Barangay 13, this city, on Tuesday afternoon. The raid was carried out by the local police and Camp Alagar’s Anti Cyber-Crime Group. Senior Supt. Roel Lamiing, Gingoog police chief, identified the alleged leader of the group as 29-year old Roel S. Ruiz who is from Barcelona, Lingig in Surigao del Sur. The other arrested suspects were identified as Gerald Viola Pinol, 26, and Joemarie Viola Pinol, 21, both from Barcelona, Lingig in Surigao del Sur; Robert Dismas Higana, 24, and Geovani Dismas Mandin, 21, of Magallanes, Barangay 24, this city; Hermenegildo Depio Escano, 20, of Saa, this city; Gener Adlawan Pacot, 29, of Mangagoy, Bislig City; and Lalyn Aboy Bicar Ruiz, 22, of Barobo, Surigao del Sur. Lamiing said the suspects, except Ruiz, are homosexual. Police said the group raked in money for two years by extorting from men who had been sweet-talked into showing themselves naked online during supposedly private sex chats. Lamiing said the group used Ruiz, the only female suspect, as a bait. He said Ruiz and the other suspects also maintained various fake Facebook accounts to deceive would-be victims. “Matag ma-chat nga foreigners ilang danihon nga maghubo, og kung maka-nude na, ilang i-record,” said SPO4 Teddy Macarayo. Macarayo said the group used the recordings to scare the victims into shelling out money or else, these would be uploaded on the Internet. Insp. Ignacio Gamba of the Anti-Cybercrime Group said they found many downloaded photos and videos of Filipino women in the suspects’ laptops. Police said the suspects used the nude photos and videos to make foreign men think they they were chatting with real women. Investigators said the photos and videos also enabled the suspects to win the trust of their would-be victims. Authorities seized laptops, a USB memory stick, a modem, router, cellular phones, remittance receipts, and other belongings allegedly used in the the cybersex extortion activities. Police also found receipts of remittances that ranged from P13 thousand to P15 thousand, mostly sent via Western Union. Police said the group’s most recent victim, a Thailander, sent money equivalent to P7 thousand. Lamiing said the suspects faced a case for violation of Republic Act 10175 or the Anti-Cyber Crime Law.