The SUN Hong Kong
The arrested recruiters offered fake nanny jobs in Dubai Two Filipinos who allegedly offered non-existent jobs in Dubai, United Arab Emirates were arrested on Wednesday by operatives from the Department of Migrant Workers and the Philippine National Police. The two who were identified as Elmina Hajiruk Jawad alias “Mau” and Angelina Paridjal Abduhasan alias “Josh” were arrested in General Trias, Cavite after three people complained that the jobs they promised in Dubai did not materialize. According to the complaint, the two suspects offered them jobs as nanny in Dubai, with a salary of 1,600 dirhams (Php26,850) each month. To convince them, “Mau” and “Josh” allegedly showed them a number of applicants who were supposedly about to leave for Dubai to take up the promised job. But upon checking, the DMW found that the recruitment agency used by the two suspects to lure victims did not have approved job orders for Dubai Because of this, the DMW Migrant Workers Protection Bureau (MWPB) decided to raid the agency’s office. But before the operation, the DMW also learned that there were other applicants inside the premises, so they mounted a rescue operation at the same time. Investigators are now preparing to file a case of illegal recruitment against the two. The MWPB is also appealing to other victims of “Mau” and “Josh” to reach out to them through https://www.facebook.com/dmwairtip so they can be provided with legal help. State 101visa consultancy has offices all over the country Earlier, DMW agents also shut down a visa consultancy company for offering fake caregiver and nurse jobs in the United States and Canada and coached applicants to create fake documents to secure visas. State 101 Travel Visa Consultancy with offices in Pasig and other places across the country, allegedly offered applicants USD1,800 monthly salaries with free meals and housing via tourist or short-term training visas. They were not given contracts, and were promised immediate deployment. Victims who were estimated to be in the hundreds, reported that after paying processing and reservation fees, agency staff gave false promises and blocked them on social media. DMW said State 101 was not licensed to recruit Filipinos for overseas jobs. However, it has yet to say whether those behind the apparent recruitment scam have been arrested and charged. Undersecretary Bernard Olalia said there were several "red flags" in the way State 101 operated: victims: (1) it was offering the jobs through social media; (2) it provided no work contracts despite charging applicants heft fees; (3) it promised immediate deployment without going through DMW; (4) it was not licensed to recruit Filipinos for work abroad.
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