5 job applicants to Italy lose P1.1-M to recruiter

Five overseas job applicants lost a total of P1.1 million to a woman who promised to secure visas for them from the Italian embassy in Manila.

Salome “Babes" Jacobe allegedly boasted of her strong connections at the embassy and the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in convincing the job applicants to give their money to her.

She collected P220,000 each from Daisy Miguel Rockville Subd. in Mapitic, Pampanga; Rolando Rabano of Tiaong, Quezon; Harry Corpus of Kamuning, Quezon City; Tomneth dela Cruz of Rosario, Pasig City and Nadia Ico of Bayambang, Pangasinan.

Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation arrested Jacobe in an entrapment at the airport on Dec 12.

The victims said a certain Denwel Dulog introduced them to Jacobe who promised them that she could procure Italian visa for them within a short period.

They were told to buy their Manila-Bangkok-Italy round trip place ticket for departure on Oct. 19. Their passports were given to them, with a stamped Italian visa.

Jacobe even accompanied them to the airport. However, a reservations officer at the NAIA counter noticed something unusual in the job applicants’ passports, prompting the airline personnel to seek help from the NBI detailed at the airport.

NBI agents found out that the Italian visas were fake.

Days later, Jacobe kept on promising the jobseekers that they would still be able to leave either on Nov 3 or 4. After they were not able to leave on that date, Jacobe asked for an additional P25,000 from each of them, purportedly for the release of their passports by the NBI at the NAIA.

Not content with that, Jacobe asked for another P50,000, supposedly as escort fee for the immigration officer at the airport and another P50,000 from each of the victims for a new round-trip ticket for Milan, Italy that they would get on their departure date on Dec. 12.

Little did Jacobe know that the victims had already sought the help of the NBI when they agreed to turn over the money to her on the same day of their departure.

When they met at the airport on Dec. 12, Jacobe even made excuses for the delay in the delivery of their passports, claiming that the person she had asked to send the passport figured in an accident.

Miguel was asked to wait until the afternoon. Jacobe kept on assuring the victims that they could leave.

As planned, Miguel handed the marked bills to the suspect. The NBI operatives then subsequently arrested her in the act of receiving the money.

She is facing charges of estafa through falsification of public documents. - GMANews.TV

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