Residential buildings within the Philippines are getting used as “living and working” services for trafficked foreigners recruited to carry out scams on unknowing victims, Senator Risa Hontiveros mentioned on Wednesday.
According to Marisol Abdurhaman’s report on “24 Oras”, an Indonesian recognized as Ridwan instructed of how he handed via the airport and dropped at a constructing simply 5 minutes away.
“Large condominium buildings are being repurposed to be used as living and working facilities for trafficked human beings, being forced to perform scams on hapless victims,” Hontiveros mentioned.
“These trafficking victims are reportedly from Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, countries in Africa, and countries in South Asia,” she mentioned.
Ridwan revealed how he was welcomed and escorted on the NAIA.
“There was an employee waiting for us after we went out to the tube. Even before the booth of Bureau of Quarantine,” Ridwan mentioned.
Hontiveros referred to as the authorities to tighten safety as scammers grew to become “more furious and intelligent.”
“We were brought to a condominium which was five minutes away. There were many security guards in the condominium,” Ridwan mentioned.
“Fifteen minutes from the airport and probably 10 minutes away from the Philippine Senate. Right under our very noses, a humanitarian crisis is taking shape. A mass of desperate humanity,” Hontiveros mentioned.
The senator additionally issued a stern warning to these accomplices of the human traffickers.
“You may suffer a penalty of life imprisonment with a fine of P5 million. This is frightening that these crimes happen in our country,” Hontiveros mentioned. —NB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
