President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. wants the human trafficking scourge in the country eradicated, Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin said on Friday.
This developed as at least six Filipinos who fell victim to a human trafficking scheme in Myanmar have returned to the Philippines, after being tortured and forced to pay up to P300,000 each by their employers.“The statement of the President is strong, and his desire is to eradicate trafficking in persons as it is another form of slavery,”
Upon arriving in Thailand, the Filipino workers were taken via boat across the Moei River to the border town of Myawaddy in Myanmar, where they were forced to stay in a dormitory building and compelled to work as online cryptocurrency scammers. “It is a love style in which men, whether European, Australian or American, 35 years old and above, lonely, without emotional support and financially independent. They will entice these men. Now once they fall for it, that’s when it’s going to be like, ‘Maybe you want to invest in cryptocurrency?’ They go slowly until they can get their victim’s money,” he said.
“When they asked me to send money to the family, on my side, nothing was sent, just a little. So, on the first day, I was hit by a pipe in the head, in different parts of the body, and my back,” Meredith said. PAOCC director Casio said the victims were eventually allowed to leaveafter making payments to their employers.
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