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Immigration officers alerted vs. illegal recruiters posing as airport employees

Immigration agents have discovered a new modus operandi by illegal recruiters after three Filipino domestic helpers were recently intercepted at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.


According to Immigration Commissioner Siegfred Mison, the illegal recruiters would pretend as airport employees to gain access to NAIA and escort departing Filipino passengers.

Mison said the suspects would use fake or even original airport IDs to enter NAIA and supply the passengers with fake travel documents.

Immigration officers have already been instructed to be "more attentive and vigilant" against the syndicate, Mison said Wednesday.
 
The modus operandi was discovered after a prospective overseas Filipino worker identified as Evangeline Domingo Torres was offloaded from Cebu Pacific Airline for having a fake departure stamp.      
 
Immigration travel control and enforcement unit head Floro Bolato Jr. said Torres admitted that she never underwent any immigration departure formalities as her passport has already been stamped when she received it hours before her departure.
 
"She was instructed that someone has already paid her terminal fee,” Balato said.
 
Torres admitted that she was supposed to travel to Qatar and work as domestic helper after staying for a day in Malaysia.
 
Meanwhile, two other human trafficking victims bound for Lebanon were intercepted with fake airport passes. The two claimed they secured the airport passes from a male airport employee. —KBK, GMA News

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