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GLORIA y PUJEDA; and ROGELIO DULDULAO y LE, without first securing the
required license and 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 (3) or more persons individually or as a group.
After the pre-trial, the trial ensued.
On January 15, 2003, Suratos went to an office in Cubao, Quezon City where she met
the accused-appellant, who promised her a job in Cyprus as a caretaker. She returned
to the accused-appellant's office a month later. The accused-appellant gave her a
machine copy of her visa to prove that there was a good job waiting for her in Cyprus
and that she would leave in three months upon payment. Suratos gave the accusedappellant an amount totaling to PhP55,000, inclusive of her passport and medical
examination report. After three months, Suratos became suspicious. She demanded the
return of her money, but the accused-appellant simply told her to wait. A month later,
Suratos learned that the accused-appellant was already detained and could no longer
deploy her abroad. She filed a complaint for illegal recruitment docketed as Criminal
Case No. Q-03-119663. Suratos identified the accused-appellant in open court as well
as the entry permit and receipts she had issued her.
Sometime in the third week of March 2003, Alayon met the accused-appellant at the All
Care Travel Agency located at 302 Escueta Bldg., Cubao, Quezon City. Accusedappellant offered her a job in Cyprus as a part of the laundry staff and asked her to pay
the total amount of PhP55,000, to submit her resume and transcript of records, among
others, and promised to deploy her abroad by June. On April 10, 2003, Alayon initially
paid PhP15,000 to the accused-appellant. When she returned to accused-appellant's
office to pay the balance, she learned that accused-appellant had been picked up by
the police. Alayon proceeded to the police station and demanded from the accusedappellant the return of her money. She filed a complaint against accused-appellant,
docketed as Criminal Case No. Q-03-119665.
During the first week of December 2012, Duldulao, through his wife's friend, was
introduced to the accused-appellant. When Duldulao mentioned that she had a sister
working in Spain, accused-appellant promised a tourist visa for him in exchange for
PhP45,000. In the first week of January 2003, he gave the accused-appellant
PhP11,000 as partial payment for the processing of his documents. The accusedappellant only took PhP10,000 and gave back PhP1,000 for him to open an account
with Land Bank, Cubao branch. Upon the request of accused-appellant, Duldulao
deposited the amount of PhP8,000 to the BPI account of accused-appellant. When he
was required by the accused-appellant to complete the payment of PhP45,000 for his
tourist visa, Duldulao obtained a bank loan of PhP11,000 and gave it to the accusedappellant. Altogether, Duldulao paid the accused-appellant a total of PhP29,000. When
he discovered that accused-appellant was arrested in April 2003, Duldulao went to
Camp Panopio and demanded that accused-appellant return his money but to no avail.
He subsequently filed a complaint against accused-appellant, docketed as Criminal
Case No. Q-03-119668.
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