Woman charged for illegal recruitment

CHARGES were filed in court against a woman who recruited people to work abroad although she has no authority to do so.

Ma. Ludina Ceniza will be facing trial on charges of estafa and illegal recuitment. She was released from detention yesterday after she posted bail in the amount of P24,000.

Ceniza was arrested in an entrapment operation by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI-7) last Thursday.

Rufina Navida, a resident of barangay Tisa in Cebu City, was told that Worldwide Acdemy of Tourism and Hospitality Inc. has been offering a job as beautician in Singapore last year. Ceniza puportedly demanded from Navida P40,000 as processing fee. Navida left for Singapore on March 2, 2011.

But while she was in Singapore, no one hired her and she decided to return to Cebu. She later learned that Ceniza has no license to recruit from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA). She requested the NBI-7 to investigate Ceniza. The NBI-7 later found out that Ceniza has no authority to recruit from the POEA./REPORTER ADOR VINCENT S. MAYOL