6/30/2021 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly FIRST DIVISION [ G.R. No. 218582, September 03, 2020 ] PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE, V. SAGISAG ATLAS "PAUL" BAUTISTA, ARLETH BUENCONSEJO' AND ROSAMEL CARA DE GUZMAN, ACCUSED, SAGISAG ATLAS "PAUL" BAUTISTA, ACCUSED-APPELLANT. DECISION CAGUIOA, J: For review in this ordinary appeal[1] is the Decision[2] dated June 27,2014 of the Court of Appeals, Tenth Division (CA), in CA-G.R. CRHC No. 05781, which affirmed the Joint Decision3 dated September 26, 2012 of the Regional Trial Court of Mandaluyong City, Branch 211 (RTC) in Criminal Case Nos. MC09-12510 to MC09-12516, MC09-12518 to 20, which found accused-appellant Sagisag Atlas "Paul" Bautista (accused-appellant Bautista) guilty beyond reasonable doubt of three counts of estafa under Article 315, paragraph 2(a) of the Revised Penal Code (RPC), and in Criminal Case No. MC0912517, for violation of Section 6 of Republic Act No. (R.A.) 8042 or the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995. The Facts In 11 separate Informations, accused-appellant Bautista, together with co-accused Arleth Buenconsejo (Buenconsejo) and Rosamel Cara De Guzman (De Guzman), was charged with 10 counts of estafa under Article 315, paragraph 2(a) of the RPC, and one count of violation of R.A. 8042. The accusatory portions of said Informations read: CRIMINAL CASE NO. MC09-12510 (Estafa) "That on or about the month of September 2008, in the City of Mandaluyong, Philippines, a place within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused, conspiring and confederating together and mutually helping and aiding one another with intent to defraud RANDY PAJARILLO, by means of deceit and false pretenses executed prior to or simultaneous with the commission of fraud, did, then and there wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously pretend and falsely represent themselves to have power, capacity and qualifications to deploy complainant for employment in Korea as factory worker for a fee, in the amount of fifty thousand pesos (P50,000.00), and by means of other similar deceits, which representation the accused well knew was false and fraudulent, and was only made by them to induce said complainant to give and deliver and i[n] fact, said complainant gave and delivered the total amount of P50,000.00, as payment https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/66754 1/20

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