Pinoy trafficking victims repatriated from Laos

Four overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) trafficked for employment in Laos returned to the country on Oct. 17 after seeking help from the Philippine Embassy in Vientiane, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said in a statement on Monday.

It added that the victims were supposedly bound for Brunei but ended up being “trafficked to Laos through Thailand.”

The OFWs told the BI they were recruited online for a customer service job that promised a salary of up to P47,000.

Instead, they did social media work for online scams, and one admitted to being “coerced into illegal activities.”

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They were also made to “work for up to 15 hours a day without rest, and forced to perform unrelated tasks,” the BI said.