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THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) intercepted the departure of a female trafficking victim pretending to be an interpol agent.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bienvenido Castillo III of the BI Immigration Protection and Border Enforcement Section (I-PROBES)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n reported the interception of a 34-year-old victim last March 8 at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 after attempting to depart on board an Air Asia flight to Bangkok, Thailand.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The woman, according to Castillo, was made to pose as an interpol agent, under the Protective Intelligence Anti-Crime Organization (PIAO).<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n She presented an identification card and letter orders from PIAO, saying that she is allowed to travel for a holiday.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n However, the immigration officer noted inconsistencies in her statements and referred her for secondary inspection.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cIt was then that she admitted that her documents are fake, and that she was recruited via Facebook to work as a household service worker in Thailand,\u201d said Castillo.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cHer recruiter reportedly offered her P40,000 salary before giving her the documents,\u201d Castillo added.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco lamented the use of creative stories and documents by traffickers to traffic their victims.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cOur immigration officers are well-trained to spot inconsistencies and fraud, hence such attempts will not succeed,\u201d he stated.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The victim was turned over to the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking for filing of cases against her recruiters. <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) intercepted the departure of a female trafficking victim pretending to be an interpol agent. Bienvenido Castillo III of the BI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370"}],"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=4370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4372,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions\/4372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}