Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) warned Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) about recruitment agencies that are still operating despite having their license suspended or canceled.
The POEA has cancelled licenses of 451 recruitment agencies and places 44 others under suspension.
From 2008 to 2009 alone, POEA had cancelled 74 operating and suspended or fined 22 agencies due to recruitment violations.
On the other hand, based on statistics supplied by the non-government organization Initiatives for Dialogue and Empowerment through Alternative Legal Services (Ideals), there were 1,662 confirmed victims of illegal recruitment from January to November 2008, an increase of four percent from 1,539 during the same period in 2007.
Senior Superintendent Gilbert Sosa of the Task Force Against Illegal Recruitment (Tfair) named the suspected illegal recruiters with the most number of warrant of arrest.
“Atleast 276 Filipinos have a total of more than 20,000 un-served warrants of arrest for large-scale illegal recruitment,” Sosa told GMANews.tv
“Of the 276 suspects, 68 have double digit warrants of arrests,” he added.
Sosa later confirmed that the numbers of suspected illegal recruiters were narrowed down after the back-to-back entrapment operations. However, the public particularly the OFWs are still warned about other illegal recruiters that have not yet caught.
Sosa says that they are planning to come up with a list of 50 most wanted persons in large-scale illegal recruitment and seek public help to caught them.
Here is the list of wanted illegal recruiters with the most number of warrants of arrest:
1. Harleta Velasco (134)
2. Rosemarie Liwanag (82)
3. Maricar Inovero (79)
4. Corazon Ventura (48)
5. Amelia Gabriel (29)
6. Beverly Tuazon (27)
7. Maria Harleta Velasco (27) - suspected to be the same recruiter with the most number of arrests
8. Aminola Camarudin (24)
9. Marissa Biyalat (24).
If you have been approach by the people who are names above or any illegal recruiter, just contact POEA hotline at 722-1144 or 722-1155 for immediate.
To see the list of recruitment agencies that has been cancelled or suspended by the POEA just click here.
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mam:
i would like to check if this agency is excessting in your list in uk. info.visaoffice.com . mr. james kennedy
130,shaftesbury avenue
London.u.k
also know as visa office uk visa service. i appreciate so much if you give me the result as possible. thanx aain and may god bless you. - Antonia Omos
Those who wanted the complete list of outstanding or suspended, or unlisted recruiters, you can visit the POEA website. Check the standing of the agency you have in relation to your application to work abroad or the agency where you want to apply.AMM - AMM
sir/madam,
kindly list down all cancelled recruitment agencies and those suspended as well so we will be aware of them. thank you. - Jason Ramirez Bas
to ms.darlene, i think you should not even think about sending any amount to that contact about hiltonsuite or anything that goes with websites etcetcetc.COM because all these links are just COMercial and are for business. after you send them the money, they have already eaten you alive. other payments will follow. i have checked this kind of job opportunity before and i contacted the hotel mentioned. i was not surprised to receive an answer from the exact hotel personnel telling me that they never advertised out of that certain country. be careful. - D
hi im darlene of cebu i would like to verify this link canadaimmigrationservicecenter@immigrationhomeservice.com and hiltonsuite@canadasuiteshotel.com. the immigration were asking for $375 to process my work permit visa. i willl be waiting for ur opinion on this. thank you - DARLENE D. CARCEDO
With all due respect Sirs/Madams. the list that you show here are list of names of persons not the name of agencies in which they are connected or work with. If I am an applicant, how will I know that these people are not connected with the agency where I am applying. I think it's better to give the agency name, address & tel # just in case they change their agency name. - Erick Of Dubai
mam: