BI orders probe of trafficking at Manila airporthome/News/Top Stories/BI orders probe of trafficking at Manila airportBUREAU of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Jaime Morante has ordered an investigation of alleged involvement of some immigration officers assigned at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in large-scale human trafficking. Medina said it was possible that there were cases of human trafficking at the NAIA but added that they were isolated incidents. In his column, Tulfo said the human trafficking syndicate at the NAIA nets P10 million to P50 million a day. But Medina said the figures were “mathematically impossible,” considering the accomplishments of BI in preventing human trafficking, which enabled the Philippines to retain its Tier 1 rating for three consecutive years, 2016 to 2018, in the US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons report. Tier 1 rating implies that a country complies with the minimum standards set by the United States Trafficking Victim Protection Act.

Source: Manila Times April 09, 2019 16:07 UTC