POEA shuts down 2 establishments for illegal recruitment

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration recently closed two separate offices operating
as recruitment agencies without the proper license and authority to recruit and deploy overseas Filipino workers.

Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac identified these establishments as Danz Consultancy Management located at Room 312 C.K. Sy Diamond Building No. 156 Libertad St., Pasay City and LJP Travel Assistance Agency located at 2278-B Onyx Street, Sta. Ana, Manila.

“Prior to the closure, our Anti-Illegal Recruitment Branch placed the two establishments under surveillance and investigation after some of their victims reported to POEA their alleged illegal recruitment activities,”Cacdac said.

Posing as job applicants, POEA operatives discovered that Danz Consultancy Management was recruiting dairy farmers to Japan and grape pickers to Raffaldini Vine Yards Winery, Italy.

A staff of the agency tried to convince the operatives that they can be deployed through a direct-
hiring scheme; and that payment of the placement fees can only be made through bank deposit directly to the account of one Mayumi Yupangco.

Cacdac said that LJP Travel Assistance Agency has been closed last May 2013 at its office address at 1534 2nd Street near Main Street, Sta. Ana, Manila but it operated again at its present office address at 2278-B Onyx Street, Sta. Ana,Manila.

The POEA conducted surveillance on LJP based on the report of their victims who applied as nurses, waiters, and room boys respectively bound to Palau. The applicants alleged that they were required to pay twenty-three thousand pesos (P23,000.00) each as placement fees plus P4,500.00 as medical fee.

The POEA operatives reported that LJP is also recruiting security guards bound to Palau.

Under Republic Act No. 8042, as amended by Republic Act No. 10022, any act of hiring Filipino workers when undertaken by one without license or authority from the POEA is considered illegal recruitment.

Cacdac reiterated that all responsible officers of Danz Consultancy Management and LJP Travel Assistance Agency were included in the List of Persons and Establishments with Derogatory Record, thus, effectively disqualifying them from participating in the overseas recruitment program of the government.

Likewise, POEA is preparing illegal recruitment cases to be filed against the owners and employees of the two establishments. Cacdac advised job applicants to always verify with the POEA through its website poea.gov.ph and telephone hotlines 722-1144 and 721-155 if a recruiter has valid
license to recruit.


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