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That sometime during the period from October to December, 1998 in the
City of Baguio, Philippines and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable
Court, the above-named accused, did then and there willfully, unlawfully and
feloniously defraud JEFFRIES C. GOLIDAN, by way of false pretenses, which
are executed prior to or simultaneous with the commission of the fraud, as
follows, to wit: the accused knowing fully well that she is not (sic)
authorized job recruiter for persons intending to secure work abroad
convinced said Jeffries C. Golidan and pretended that she could secure a job
for him/her abroad, for and in consideration of the sum of P70,000.00 when
in truth and in fact they could not; the said Jeffries C. Golidan deceived and
convinced by the false pretenses employed by the accused parted away the
total sum of P70,000.00, in favor of the accused, to the damage and
prejudice of the said Jeffries C. Golidan in the aforementioned amount of
SEVENTY THOUSAND PESOS (P70,000,00), Philippine Currency.[5]
The Informations in the five other cases for estafa contain substantially the same
allegations as the one above-quoted, except for the private complainants' names, the
date of commission of the offense, and the amounts defrauded, to wit:
Case No. Name of the
Date of Commission of
Private
the Offense
Amount
Defrauded
Complainant
16318-R Howard C. Golidan Sometime during the P70,000.00
period from October to
December 1998
16350-R Norma Pedro
Sometime in May, 1998
P65,000.00
16369-R Milan O. Daring
Sometime
during P70.000.00
the
period
from
November 13, 1998 to
December 10, 1998
16964-R Rizalina Ferrer
Sometime in September P70,000.00
16966-R Marilyn Mana-a
Sometime in September P70,000.00[6]
1998
All seven cases against Ocden were consolidated on July 31, 2000 and were tried
jointly after Ocden pleaded not guilty.
The prosecution presented three witnesses namely: Marilyn Mana-a (Mana-a) and
Rizalina Ferrer (Ferrer), complainants; and Julia Golidan (Golidan), mother of
complainants Jeffries and Howard Golidan.
Mana-a testified that sometime in the second week of August 1998, she and Isabel
Dao-as (Dao-as) went to Ocden's house in Baguio City to apply for work as factory
workers in Italy with monthly salaries of US$1,200.00. They were required by Ocden to
submit their bio-data and passports, pay the placement fee of P70,000.00, and to
undergo medical examination.
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