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IMMIGRATION officers assigned at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1 prevented the travel of a suspected human trafficker with seven suspected victims.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Norman Tansingco said that the trafficker and her victims attempted to depart on board a Philippine Airlines flight to Bangkok last March 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The victims initially claimed to be a set of friends traveling abroad for a vacation. However, careful scrutiny of their documents revealed inconsistencies, prompting the immigration officer to refer them for secondary inspection.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n During secondary inspection, the victims admitted to be bound for Laos where they were promised work as customer service representatives.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n They admitted they are set to fly to Chiang Mai, Thailand before traveling to Laos by boat, and have been offered a monthly salary of around P40,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The victims said that they received the job offer via Facebook and online messaging service Telegram.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n They admitted that fake IDs and other documents were given to them by their escort right outside the airport right before their flight.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe escort traveled with them, but claimed to be traveling alone to Thailand when she went through immigration,\u201d said Tansingco.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe were able to intercept her, and she was positively identified as an accomplice of the recruiter,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The trafficker was turned over to the Inter-Agency Council Against trafficking (IACAT) to face charges that will be filed against her.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The BI also shared the interception of another female trafficking victim bound for the United Arab Emirates (UAE).<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The victim was intercepted last March 3 at the NAIA Terminal 3 after attempting to depart on board a Cebu Pacific Airlines flight to Dubai.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The woman claimed to be traveling to the UAE alone for tourism purposes, but later admitted to accepting a job offer received via Facebook.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n She was allegedly recruited as a household service worker via Facebook and was offered a P20,000 monthly salary.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The woman said that her recruiter contacted her via WhatsApp, where she was advised to pose as a tourist and to secure fake documents for presentation to immigration.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IMMIGRATION officers assigned at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1 prevented the travel of a suspected human trafficker with seven suspected victims. Bureau<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4368,"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\/4367"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4369,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions\/4369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}