Arrest of illegal recruiter in Basista sought
7 APPLICANTS GYPPED
BASISTA – Seven distraught overseas jobseekers filed a complaint for large-scale estafa and illegal recruitment against an illegal recruiter from Barangay Palma who promised them jobs in South Korea.
The seven, six of whom are from Basista and Urbiztondo, reported to the police that they were recruited by one Evelyn Tanael, a housewife from Barangay Palma and to whom they individually paid large sums of money. The seventh complainant is from Magalang Pampanga.
The complainants are Rex Zulueta, 31; Patria Tamondong, 42; Emma Ruth Custodio, 44, all of Pasibi East, Urbiztondo; Lito Agpoon, 39; Orlando Agpoon Jr., 27, both of Bayoyong, Basista; Leonardo Sarmiento Jr., 44, of Barangay Amabongan, Basista; and Glenda David, 36, of San Vicente, Magalang.
Tanael is still at-large and is now the subject of police manhunt.
They said Tanael asked for payments purportedly for medical fee, placement fee, training certification fee and travel tax fee which they paid on different dates since 2015 to 2016.
Based on police records, Tanael received P751,000 from all of them but she reneged in her promise to send them to Korea to work as factory workers with Yodonggo Textile company.
Each one handed P107,150 to the illegal recruiter who also took their passports in the guise of securing visas for them for their supposed overseas jobs. (Leonardo Micua)
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