DMW padlocks job agency, nabs owner

THE Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) has shut down an illegal recruitment agency operating in Manila and arrested the agency’s owner.

DMW operatives padlocked the offices of MAXILUM Recruitment Agency, also known as Cell Venus Elite Workforce Manpower and Recruitment Agency Inc., located in Binondo, following complaints of illegal recruitment and exploitation.

DMW Secretary Leo Hans Cacdac said the firm falsely promised job applicants  employment in Japan, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia without the required license or approved job orders from the DMW.

Th suspect was identified as Celisti Maxilum, owner of the agency in an entrapment operation who was apprehended along with her Russian fiancé and two-armed bodyguards.