SKOREA DEPORTS 4 TRAFFICKED FILIPINOS

FOUR Filipino women who were victims of human trafficking have been deported from South Korea for working illegally as entertainers, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said.

Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco disclosed over the weekend that the victims arrived at the Mactan Cebu International Airport on June 19 aboard a Jeju flight from South Korea.

The BI's Immigration Protection and Border Enforcement Section (I-Probes) reported that the four had been detained in Korea for working as entertainers without work visas.

But the victims said they were deceived into a scheme by a Filipino who instructed them to meet with a Korean who would handle the processing of their travel documents.

"I was offered to work as an entertainer, and he [Filipino recruiter] instructed me to meet with a Korean man who was supposed to handle the processing of travel requirements," the victim told the I-Probes investigator in Filipino.

2024-06-23T16:06:44Z dg43tfdfdgfd