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Illegal Recruiters of Entertainers nabbed by NBI

Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Bulacan arrested four illegal labor recruiters who promised several women jobs as entertainers overseas last week. The NBI identified the suspects as: Marcial Ronquillo Bernardo, Masakazi Hiratsuka, Nobuharu Kobatake, and Teroo Tsuda from Tokyo, Japan. The complainants are Lovely Sanchez, Diane V. Berna, and nine other young women mostly from Hagonoy and Malolos, Bulacan, as well as from Valenzuela City and Pampanga. According to investigation by the NBI-Anti-Human Trafficking Division (AHTRAD), on July 29, 2013, it received a complaint from Diane V. Bernal and companion that suspect Bernardo has been recruiting models and other entertainers bound for Malaysia and Japan. When they went to Bernardo’s residence in Hagonoy, Bulacan on July 25, 2012, to audition, they were asked to come back on July 30, 2013. He said his Japanese friends who would want to see them and choose who would be sent to Japan for employment had not yet arrive...