The House of Representatives approved on third and final reading Tuesday a bill that would make it easier to prosecute human traffickers by redefining an illegal recruitment syndicate as a group of two or more persons.
A total of 260 lawmakers voted in favor of House Bill 7718 which amends the existing meaning of an illegal recruitment syndicate as a group of three or more persons.
The Migrant Workers Act defines illegal recruitment as “any act of canvassing, enlisting, contracting, transporting, utilizing, hiring, or procuring workers and includes referring, contract services, promising or advertising for employment abroad, whether for profit or not when undertaken by non-licensee or non-holder of authority.”
One of the high-profile victims of human trafficking syndicate in the Philippines is Mary Jane Veloso, who has been meted a death sentence by an Indonesian court for being caught with 2.6 kilos of heroin in Yogyakarta in 2010.
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