Illegal Recruitment in Benguet

This is the top story in this Sunday's edition of the Baguio Herald Express. According to the news article, of the 150 people allegedly recruited illegally by a certain individual here in the Cordillera region, most of them are from Benguet. 

The article identified the recruiter as a person named Sheena Mae Canlas. Canlas and her agents allegedly duped nearly 500 individuals from different parts of the country. 150 of these are Cordillerans, mostly from Benguet.

The recruiter and her agents offered jobs in Japan and Switzerland with monthly salaries of 80,000 and 160,000 respectively. In exchange for their services, the recruiters asked for fees from the applicants. These fees range from 150,000 to 200,000 per applicant.

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