POEA padlocks offices of two unlicensed manpower agencies

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), with the assistance of the
Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) shut down
two offices allegedly used in illegal recruitment activities.

Administrator Hans Leo J. Cacdac ordered the closure of Groselex Manpower Services located
at 2920 Taft Avenue corner EDSA, Pasay City and Rovejane Manpower Services with office
address at 3rd Floor, Gisselle Park Plaza, EDSA corner Taft Avenue, Pasay City after
confirmation that they have been illegally operating as recruitment agents and referring their
recruits to training centers and licensed recruitment agencies.

“The acts of offering a job, interview, or referral for overseas work by any person or entity
without proper license from the POEA is considered illegal recruitment even if there is a
licensed recruiter at the process,” he said.

Cacdac said the operatives caught the employees of Groselex in the act of illegal recruitment
and locked down its office of which was hidden in a cell phone accessory shop cum variety
store. The employees admitted that they were recruiting quality inspectors, civil inspectors,
equipment inspector training officers allegedly for Kuwait, Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates,
Qatar, and Bahrain; entertainers to Japan; factory workers for Taiwan and Korea; and domestic
workers for Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Groselex charges its applicants Php500.00 as “initializing fee”, an undisclosed amount for
training fee, and a month’s worth of salary to be paid by salary deduction as placement fee.
Cacdac said Rovejane Manpower Services was found operating in the guise of a local
employment agency but recruits fruit pickers for Japan; factory workers for Taiwan; and
domestic workers for the Middle East, Singapore, and Thailand. The agency collects P500
"initializing fee" from applicants and refers them to a training center in Cavite. The officers
arrested a certain Phing Pumaraya who was present during the raid.

POEA will initiate filing of illegal recruitment and estafa cases against Pumaraya and the staff of
Groselex identified as Nancy A. Arcasa Nengasa alias Mahinay Villafuerte, Ma. Christina
Mendioro Isar, and Danilo Gucela Binger, and administrative cases against the licensed
agencies found in connivance with Groselex. /

POEA NEWS RELEASE
March 23, 2016

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