URDANETA CITY – Some 50 people in Pangasinan and several others in Ilocos Sur were gypped by a glib-tongued woman recruiter who promised all her victims non-existent jobs in Spain.

The suspect was identified as Leticia Ganaden, 44, of barangay Mabanogbog, Urdaneta City who was arrested by the police in Mandaluyong City where she fled after being wanted in Pangasinan.

She is now detained at the district jail of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Urdaneta City.

Eleven cases filed against her before the salas of Regional Trial Court Judge Emilio Emuslan and Joven Costales for large-scale recruitment and estafa were all unbailable.

The victim convinced farmers, carpenters, mechanics and housewives to apply for jobs in Spain that did not exist.

Ganaden charged each one as high as P330,000.

The victims had to sell their pieces of land, houses and borrow money from relatives abroad just to come up with the amount demanded by Ganaden.

Several more victims turned up when the accused was brought before the court for preliminary investigation, all of them saying they .will also file similar cases against Ganaden.

Two of the complainants said they were handed by Ganaden travel documents to Spain but they became suspicious because it was not their names that were written in the documents.

It was only when they verified this with proper government agencies that they discovered Ganaden to be an illegal recruiter. (PNA)