The Philippines' most wanted illegal recruiter has 134 warrants of arrest which police have not served, an official of the Task Force Against Illegal Recruiters (TFAIR) said on Wednesday. Harleta Velasco has remained free despite the huge number of arrest warrants for illegal recruitment and estafa (fraud) case filed against her, said Senior Superintendent Gilbert Sosa, the TFAIR operations chief. Velasco is among the 276 illegal recruiters with a total of 20,000 warrants of arrest that the police have failed to serve, said the TFAIR chief. He said that of the 276 suspects, 68 have double digit warrants of arrests. Vice President Noli De Castro, who is also the TFAIR head, has urged police authorities to serve the warrants and give justice to the victims of illegal recruitment. De Castro wanted all of the suspects to be identified to forewarn jobseekers but, in view of the long list, Sosa named only nine, all of them women. Velasco is on top of the list. The top eight after her were Rosemarie Liwanag, witth 82 warrants of arrest, Maricar Inovero (79), Corazon Ventura (48), Amelia Gabriel (29), Beverly Tuazon (27), Aminola Camarudin (24) and Marissa Biyalat (24). Sosa said the TFAIR got the list from the database of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), who in turn got it from the courts. Sosa, who came from the PNP's Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), said the task force plans to come up with a comprehensive list of the most wanted illegal recruiters and seek the public's help to find them. De Castro told the task force to go after those with the most number of pending warrants.
