5/3/2021 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly feloniously for a fee, recruit and promise employment/job placement abroad to VIOLETA S. DE LA CRUZ, NOEL DE LA CRUZ, PELAGIA DE LA CRUZ, REMELYN JACINTO, TERESITA LORENZO and ROLANDO RUSTIA, without first securing the required license or authority from the Department of Labor and Employment, in violation of said law. That the crime described above is committed in large scale as the same was perpetrated against three or more persons individually or as group as penalized under Article 38 and 39 of the Labor Code as amended by PD 2018. Contrary to law."[2] Five other informations for estafa were also filed before the same court each charging Dioscora Arabia and Francisca Tomas with estafa under par. 2, subpar. (a), of Art. 315, of the Revised Penal Code. Of the six (6) complainants in the case for Illegal Recruitment in Large Scale, only one, Pelagia de la Cruz, did not file a case for estafa. The estafa cases (naming the complainants and stating the amounts therein involved) include: (1) Criminal Case No. Q-93-48584 (Rolando Rustia-P23,000.00); (2) Criminal Case No. Q-93-48586 (Noel De La Cruz-P16,000.00); (3) Criminal Case No. Q-9348587 (Teresita Julva Lorenzo-P16,000.00); (4) Criminal Case No. Q-93-48588 (Violeta S. De La Cruz-P16,000.00); (5) Criminal Case No. Q-93-48589 (Remelyn Nona JacintoP16,000.00). Except for the name of the offended party, the amount involved and the date of the commission of the crime, the following information in Criminal Case No. Q-93-48584 typified the other informations for the crime of estafa: "The undersigned accuses DIOSCORA M. ARABIA and FRANCISCA L. TOMAS of the crime of Estafa, committed as follows: That on or sometime in the month of October, 1992, in Quezon City, Philippines, the said accused, conspiring together, confederating with and mutually helping each other, did then and there willfully, unlawfully and feloniously defraud ROLANDO RUSTIA in the following manner, to wit: the said accused, by means of false manifestations and fraudulent representation which they made to said Rolando Rustia to the effect that they had the power and capacity to recruit and employ Rolando Rustia and could facilitate the processing of the pertinent papers if given the necessary amount to meet the requirements thereof, and by means of other similar deceits, induced and succeeded in inducing said Rolando Rustia to give and deliver, as in fact he gave and delivered to said accused the amount of P23,000.00 on the strength of said manifestations and representations, said accused well knowing that the same were false and fraudulent and were made solely to obtain, as in fact they did obtain the amount of P23,000.00, which amount once in possession, with intent to defraud Rolando Rustia, https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/52758 2/12