sum total of at least six (6) years, eight (8) months and twenty-one (21) days of prision
mayor plus five (5) years [one (1) year for each additional P10,000.00].
Criminal Case No. 97-603 involves the amount of P20,000.00, thus the penalty
imposed by the court a quo of two (2) years, four (4) months and one (1) day of prision
correccional, to six (6) years and one (1) day of prision mayor is within the proper range.
WHEREFORE, the appealed Decision finding accused-appellant MINA LIBRERO
guilty of Illegal Recruitment in Large Scale and eight (8) counts of Estafa is
AFFIRMED subject to the MODIFICATION insofar as the penalties therein imposed are
concerned (1) In Crim. Case No. 97-593 accused-appellant MINA LIBRERO is sentenced to
life imprisonment, and to pay the fine of P500,000.00, plus costs;
(2) In Crim. Cases Nos. 97-594 and 97-602 accused-appellant MINA LIBRERO
is sentenced to an indeterminate prison term of four (4) years and two (2) months
of prision correccional as minimum to eight (8) years, eight (8) months and twenty-one
(21) days of prision mayor as maximum. She is also ordered to pay John William Green
the amount of P43,000.00 and Liza Peclaro the amount of P50,000.00, plus the costs;
(3) In Crim. Case No. 97-597 accused-appellant MINA LIBRERO is sentenced to an
indeterminate prison term of four (4) years and two (2) months of prision correccional as
minimum to nine (9) years, eight (8) months and twenty-one (21) days of prision
mayor as maximum and to pay Edgar Amparo the sum of P55,000.00 plus the costs;
(4) In Crim. Cases Nos. 97-598, 97-599, 97-600 and 97-601 accused-appellant
MINA LIBRERO is sentenced to an indeterminate prison term of four (4) years and two
(2) months of prision correccional as minimum to eleven (11) years, eight (8) months
and twenty-one (21) days ofprision mayor as maximum, and to pay Arthur Osias, Allan
Joseph Nones, Ramonito Bautista and Andres Apatas each the sum of P75,000.00,
plus the costs; and,
(5) In Crim. Case No. 97-603 accused-appellant MINA LIBRERO is sentenced to an
indeterminate prison term of two (2) years, four (4) months and one (1) day
of prision correccional to six (6) years and one (1) day of prision mayor, and to pay
Elenor Gramonte the sum ofP20,000.00, plus the costs.
SO ORDERED.
Mendoza, Quisumbing, Buena, and De Leon, Jr., JJ., concur.
[1]
Decision penned by Judge Herminio I. Benito, RTC-Br. 132, Makati City, on 29 September 1997; Rollo,
pp. 42-55.
[2]
Rollo, p. 8.
[3]
Id., pp. 10-29.
[4]
TSN, 28 July 1997, p. 4.