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AUTHORITIES rescued 15 victims of human trafficking in Palawan who were about to take boats that will bring them separately to Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Philippine National Police Women and Children Protection Center Maj. Shari Vanneza B. Deseo said four Filipino suspects were arrested and are facing criminal charges for human trafficking and large-scale illegal recruitment.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Desero said the victims–six of them females and the rest all males–were from different places in Metro Manila, Cavite and Bicol.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The official said the victims were enticed to work by the recruiters as Customer Service Representatives with a promised monthly salary of P50,000 up to P53,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Unknown to the victims, they will end up working in companies engaged in illegal cryptocurrency hubs in Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Officers from the PNP-WCPC, with the support of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission, the Department of Migrant Workers and the PNP Maritime Group, conducted the successful anti-trafficking in persons\u2019 operation.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n All victims were turned over to the Department of Social Welfare and Development for psycho-social intervention.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n An investigation showed the victims were recruited thru Facebook.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The PNP-WCPC spokesperson said that after engaging the victims via Facebook, the recruiters asked the victims to join a group chat, where they were offered the high-paying job.<\/strong> Unknown to the victims, they will \u00a0be working as scammers in a crypto-currency hub abroad.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AUTHORITIES rescued 15 victims of human trafficking in Palawan who were about to take boats that will bring them separately to Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16393,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16391\/revisions\/16393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}