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Inovero likewise denied receiving any money from the complainants, nor
issuing receipts therefor.[8]
Judgment of the RTC
On January 14, 2008, the RTC rendered judgment acquitting Inovero of five counts of
estafa but convicting her in Criminal Case No. 04-1562 of illegal recruitment committed
in large scale as defined and penalized by Section 6 and Section 7 of Republic Act No.
8042 (Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995), disposing thusly:
WHEREFORE, judgment is hereby rendered in the aforestated cases as
follows:
In Criminal Case No. 04-1562, accused Maricar Inovero is found guilty
beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of Illegal Recruitment in large scale
defined and penalized under Sections 6 and 7, II, of Republic Act No. 8042
otherwise known as the ‘Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of
1995’, and is hereby sentenced to suffer the penalty of life imprisonment.
She is likewise ordered to pay a fine of Five Hundred Thousand Pesos
(P500,000.00).
Criminal Case No. 04-1563 also for illegal recruitment in large scale is
hereby ordered dismissed to its finality for failure of complainants Alvin De
Leon, Roderick Acuna, Agosto Vale and Marina Viernes to revive said case
despite the lapse of two years from its provisional dismissal.
Criminal Cases No. 04-1564, 1566, 1567, 1569, 1571 and 1574 are hereby
ordered DISMISSED for failure of the prosecution to adduce sufficient
evidence to prove all the elements of the said offense.
Criminal Cases Nos. 1565, 1568, 1570, 1572 and 1573 also for estafa [are]
hereby ordered dismissed to its finality for failure of complainants Agosto
Vale, Alvin De Leon, Roselyn Saruyda, Roderick Acuna and Marina Viernes to
revive said cases despite the lapse of two (2) years from its provisional
dismissal.
Considering that the accused is a detention prisoner, she shall be credited in
the service of her sentence with the full time during which she has
undergone preventive imprisonment if she agrees voluntarily to abide by the
same disciplinary rules imposed upon convicted prisoners, otherwise, with
four-fifths thereof.
Meanwhile, considering that the accused Ma. Harleta B. Velasco, Marissa
Diala and Berna Paulino are still at large, let alias warrants of arrest be
issued against them. In the meantime, let the cases filed against them be
archived, which shall be revived upon their apprehension.
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