New Zealand native Vernon Wayne Gardiner walked away from jail last Friday after his compatriots back home pitched in via a TV program to raise over US$4,000 needed to restitute the amount he had gypped from a Filipino jobseeker in 2011.
Immigration officers at the Clark International Airport in Pampanga have intercepted five Filipino women who were bound for South Korea and who were apparently victims of human trafficking.
A judge hearing a case of a 66-year-old Kiwi facing at least 20 years behind bars for estafa and illegal recruitment charges appealed to the New Zealand Embassy in Manila to assist its detained citizen settle his financial obligation to free him from jail.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration recently padlocked the offices of MYM International Manpower Agency for recruiting overseas Filipino workers without a license and canceled the license of Philquest International Management and Service Contractor for charging excessive placement fees and other recruitment violations.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration has filed recruitment violation cases against 19 manning agencies found conducting illegal recruitment activities at the Luneta Seafarer’s Center in Ermita, Manila.
Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation re-arrested, on Saturday, a recruiter accused of duping overseas Filipino workers into transporting illegal drugs, including a Filipino woman who was executed last year in China.
Criminal Investigation and Detection Group on Thursday called on to the public to come out and file complaints if they have been victimized by two illegal recruiters their office have arrested from separate operations in Nueva Ecija and La Union on Wednesday.
The government filed 29 illegal recruitment cases against agencies and persons recruiting Filipinos to work in Syria despite a government ban, Vice President Jejomar Binay said in a statement Monday.
A construction firm based in Afghanistan was slapped with estafa and illegal recruitment cases filed by five overseas Filipino workers on Wednesday.
Philippine Embassies throughout the European Union (EU) took part in a three-day workshop in Vienna, Italy to boost their capacity to combat human trafficking and illegal recruitment.
The Philippines will host next week an international dialogue involving 20 labor-sending and labor-receiving countries that would, among others, try to help end illegal recruitment and provide better protection for migrant workers, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said Thursday.
The Bureau of Immigration said on Thursday its agents intercepted at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport a woman who faked a mole on her face in an attempt to match the face in the picture that was on the passport she was carrying.
