6/7/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly representing the receipt amounting to P40,000.00 received by appellant from complainant Aguilar-Uy, can be given probative value. And considering the amount defrauded is P40,000.00 which is P18,000.00 more than P22,000.00, one (1) year shall be added to six (6) years, eight (8) months and twenty-one (21) days making the maximum term of the indeterminate sentence to seven (7) years, eight (8) months and twenty-one (21) days. Finally, following prevailing jurisprudence, the Court, likewise, imposes interest at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum on each of the amounts awarded from the date of finality of this Decision until fully paid. WHEREFORE, premises considered, the appeal is hereby DISMISSED. The Court of Appeals Decision dated July 2, 2013 in CA G.R. CR-HC No. 04935 is AFFIRMED with MODIFICATION to read as follows: 1. In Criminal Case No. 05-412, the Court finds appellant Michelle Dela Cruz GUILTY beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of Illegal Recruitment committed in large scale. She is hereby sentenced to suffer the penalty of life imprisonment, and ordered to pay a fine of P500,000.00; 2. In Criminal Case No. 05-413, the Court finds appellant Michelle Dela Cruz GUILTY beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of estafa and sentences her to an indeterminate penalty of four (4) years and two (2) months of prision correccional, as minimum, to seven (7) years, eight (8) months and twentyone (21) days of prision mayor, as maximum. 3. Appellant Michelle Dela Cruz is likewise ordered to indemnify private complainant Armely Aguilar Uy in the amount of Forty Thousand Pesos (P40,000.00) as actual damages, with legal interest of six percent (6%) per annum from the finality of this decision, until the said amount is fully paid. SO ORDERED. Mendoza, Leonen, and Martires, JJ., concur. Carpio, (Chairperson), J., on wellness leave. ** Acting Chairperson, per Special Order No. 2445 dated June 16, 2017. *** Also spelled "dela Cruz" in some parts of the records. [1] Penned by Associate Justice Rosmari D. Carandang, with Associate Justices Ricardo R. Rosario and Leoncia R. Dimagiba, concurring; rollo, pp. 2-16. [2] CA rollo, pp. 39-46. [3] Records, pp. 2-3. elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/63140 15/18