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THE <\/strong>Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on Friday arrested two suspects and padlocked a travel agency in Mandaluyong City allegedly involved in illegal recruitment.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n DMW Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac led the entrapment operation and the closure of the office of Thrifty International Travel and Tours Inc. <\/strong>located along Pioneer Street in Mandaluyong City.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The office allegedly illegally recruits Filipino applicants for jobs in Japan and Italy.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The DMW said the agency reportedly charged exorbitant fees from applicants.<\/p>\n Two were arrested after they were caught receiving marked money from an undercover agent, who posed as an applicant looking for work in Japan.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cCaught red-handed ang dalawang empleyado nito It’s an entrapment and closure operation actually,\u201d Cacdac said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The undercover agent was offered a job as a household worker in Japan, with a P60,000 monthly salary, Cacdac said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cHe was charged P120,000 and was told to pay P60,000 as downpayment. And that\u2019s how we caught them, that’s the marked money, the P60,000,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to Cacdac, the agency has no recruitment license from the DMW.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on Friday arrested two suspects and padlocked a travel agency in Mandaluyong City allegedly involved in illegal recruitment. DMW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8263,"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\/8262"}],"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=8262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8265,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8262\/revisions\/8265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}