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An immigration official is under fire for his connections to human trafficking.

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) said on Thursday that a male immigration officer would be prosecuted administratively for allegedly helping a couple who were allegedly victims of trafficking in Myanmar leave the country.

According to a statement from Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco, the officer has been fired for his role in the case of the pair who worked as love fraudsters and fled their employers on April 25 before returning home.

Tansingco issued a warning to border patrol agents not to engage in illicit cross-border activity.

“I will stand up for you if you are innocent. However, you will understand the repercussions of your actions if I find out that you are involved. Whoever your supporter is, I don’t care, he said.

The victims claim that they were subjected to malnutrition, physical abuse, and threats as punishment for not meeting their quota.

Both asserted that they departed the nation in October 2022 for what they believed to be a four-day holiday in Singapore after being recruited by a particular Maxesa via social media.

The two recollected their flight from Singapore to Bangkok, where they were driven by armed men to Mae Sot City before taking a boat to Myanmar. They successfully made their getaway, and then they turned to the Philippine Embassy in Thailand for help.

At the same time, the BI stated that two trafficking victims had been rescued in Terminal 1 of Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).

On separate occasions on April 28 and 29, the women were detained as they prepared to board their planes to Dubai.

Tansingco claimed that immigration officials at the airport discovered the two’s United Arab Emirates (UAE) job visa was a forgery, preventing them from departing.

The victims asserted that they just acquired their travel documents at the airport, a short time before their flights were planned and that they were unaware that the papers provided to them were fake.

“These gangs have little empathy for or interest in the welfare of their victims. In order to sustain their families back home, they prey on our poor countrymen who are drawn to their terrible methods by their intense desire to make a life overseas, he stated.

The BI’s travel control and enforcement unit claimed that once BI officials discovered that the overseas job certificates the passengers had presented could not be verified in the Department of Migrant Workers database, they were both referred for secondary inspection. It was discovered after verification that their UAE job visas were likewise fake.

The Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking received the ladies for an investigation and to help with cases against their recruiters.

The agency also fired another officer from his position last month for allegedly assisting in the deportation of individuals who were attempting to fly to Lebanon to work as domestic helpers.

Allegedly, the women were being trafficked for labor in the Middle East.

The passengers, who pretended to be tourists at first, subsequently admitted that Lebanon, where they were hired to work, was actually their final destination.

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