By ERNIE G. HERNANDEZ
CALAPAN CITY — Nestor M. Mantaring, director of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), has ordered a hunt for two suspected illegal recruiters who allegedly defrauded more than 30 jobseekers, most of them residents of this province, in the total amount of R4.6 million.
Mantaring directed NBI field agents to arrest suspects, both women and residents of Project 2, Quezon City.
The two women were implicated by their alleged partner, a resident of Cubao, Quezon City, who was caught in an entrapment operation conducted by agents of the NBI Anti-Human Trafficking Division last July 6 in Quezon City following the complaints of 23 jobseekers.
The 23 complainants said that they shelled out from P55,000 to P201,000 each for the processing of travel and other documents after they were promised jobs as caregivers, concession workers, assistant cooks, cooks, housekeepers and radio operators in the United States.
The NBI said that one of the women, who also resides in Pola town, Oriental Mindoro, was included several times in the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) list of persons with derogatory records.
Dianelly Fetalvero of Pola town and Romblon province, one of the 23 complainants and an asset used by the NBI anti-human trafficking division headed by Ferdinand Lavin, in the entrapment operation, said that the suspect was also using another name in her illegal recruitment activities in Metro Manila and the provinces, particularly Mindoro.
Fetalvero said that the suspect has a standing warrant for her arrest together with her husband for illegal recruitment issued under Criminal Case No. 05-897 on April 22, 2005 by Judge Selma Palacio Alaras of Branch 62 of the Makati City regional trial court.
Judge Alaras has fixed the bail of the two accused at P24,000 each.
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