The country’s immigration bureau said it had launched an investigation into allegations that some of its officers were involved in the trafficking of 44 women to work in Syria.A Senate inquiry into the human-trafficking scheme has been told that women using tourist visas travelled from the Philippines to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates where they had been promised work.
They were “locked up inside a dark and dirty dormitory and were made to sleep on the floor”, Senator Risa Hontiveros, who is spearheading the inquiry, said previously.