Airport personnel in ‘escort’ racket warned By Benjamin B. Pulta 07/24/2011

Airport personnel in ‘escort’ racket warned

By Benjamin B. Pulta 07/24/2011
Airport personnel who “escort” or facilitate the exit out of the country of victims of human trafficking syndicates will soon be sacked and charged, justice officials yesterday said.

Justice Undersecretary and Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking in Persons (IACAT) head Jose Vicente Salazar warned all airport officials and personnel who are in cahoots with human trafficking syndicates.

“We are very alarmed about reports of airport personnel facilitating the exit of mostly tourist workers who are most prone to exploitation by trafficking syndicates. We will implement a rigorous investigation and monitoring of those implicated in the reports, and definitely we will file cases against them as soon as we find probable cause,” he warned.

“The Department of Justice and IACAT will see to it that they will be sacked from their employment, taken to court and jailed for jeopardizing the lives of our countrymen who most oftentimes get abused on foreign shores, either ending up as drug mules or prostitutes,” Salazar said as he emphasized that Malacañang has taken interest in the status of the cases of government officials and employees involved in human trafficking..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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