The Bureau of Immigration rounded up 19 Russian women suspected of being prostitutes, that caters mostly to rich men and foreigners in a nightclub in Pampanga, for working without employment visas.
Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said that two Koreans believed to be the women’s recruiters and employers, were also arrested during the operation conducted by BI intelligence agents in Angeles City.
The pretty Russian women are all high-class escorts and are hard to keep track of, as some of these ladies are customers of some local politicians and businessmen in the country.
The girls also use modern technology to find new customers to keep themselves in business.
Morente said the arresting team caught the Russian women in flagrante or in the act of working as escort girls and guest relations officers (GROs) inside the Club Angel in Clark Field, Angeles City.
The Koreans, identified as Jeong Seonghun, 30, and Lee Kyurak, 30, were working as the club’s cashier and manager, respectively. The BI said the Koreans facilitated the women’s entry into the country.
“They will all be deported for working without visas and for other immigration offenses,” said Morente, adding that those arrested are undesirable aliens engaged in prostitution that catered to customers who were charged an hourly rate of P1,500 for the women’s services.
BI intelligence officer Jude Hinolan, who led the arresting team, reported that the two Koreans are both overstaying aliens who arrived several months ago and did not bother to extend their stay as tourists.
Hinolan said that all of the 19 Russian women also arrived as tourists and that nine of them were also overstaying in the country.
“We have recommended that charges for violating the anti-trafficking persons in act be filed against the two Koreans as they were the ones who supposedly facilitated the entry of these women into the country,” Hinolan added.
The Philippine immigration act strictly forbids foreigners from engaging in gainful activity without applying for work permits and visas.
All 21 foreigners were later brought to the BI detention facility in Camp Bagong Diwa where they are confined pending deportation proceedings that will be initiated against them.
