The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) rescued three foreign women—one Vietnamese and two Chinese nationals—from a sex trafficking operation in Pasay City last week.
In a statement released on Saturday, August 9, the NBI revealed that its Organized and Transnational Crime Division (OTCD) received a tip regarding a suspected prostitution den allegedly run by foreign nationals inside a hotel in Malibay, Pasay.
According to the report, the establishment offered women of Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Vietnamese descent to Chinese clients for sexual services, facilitated through online booking platforms.
Following a series of surveillance operations, NBI-OTCD agents launched an entrapment operation. Using a Telegram account, they secured two bookings with the suspected den.
Two Chinese informants posed as clients and were picked up by a man driving a grey car on August 2.
The poseur-clients entered a hotel, while NBI-OTCD agents tailed the grey car that picked up three female foreign nationals.
The NBI-OTCD eventually arrested the grey car driver who was identified as Jerwin C. Laila, and rescued the female Vietnamese and two female Chinese nationals from the sex trafficking scheme.
The NBI said the rescued foreign nationals executed sworn statements, revealing that a certain Tao Yuan offered them for sex services via online booking, while Laila regularly fetched them when they had clients.
Laila was charged last August 4 before the Pasay City Prosecutor’s Office for violating Republic Act No. 9208, the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003, as amended by RA Nos. 10364 and 11862.
Tao Yuan will also be charged with the same criminal violations, the NBI said. (Czarina Ong Ki)
