The worms in the can of the multi-million-peso Italian employment sting came spilling after one of Alpha Assistenza SRL's "hired liaison officers" on Saturday filed a sworn complaint before the NBI against her former employer, CEO Krizelle Respicio.
Respicio had tagged the complainant as the one who pulled the scam on more than a hundred victims.
Maria Socorro Velasquez trooped to the NBI-NCR office in Manila with five other victims to formalize their complaints against Respicio and co-CEO Frederick Dutaro, despite her being identified among the respondents in several complaints filed by the victims whom she said she is now helping to find justice.
Velasquez recounted to DAILY TRIBUNE her dealings with Respicio, which she first divulged when she appeared with three other victims in the 21 September episode of Usapang OFW.
She was also an applicant at Alpha but ended up working for Respicio and Dutaro as a "runner," accompanying other applicants to PIASI, the visa processing center for Italy in the Philippines, in exchange for waiving the processing fees for her visa.
Respicio said she could pay for it when she got a job in Italy, Velasquez said.
65 applicants assisted
She was able to "assist" some 65 applicants at the PIASI, who were all rejected for fake documents.
Instead of evading the "victims" of the "scam," Velasquez decided to help them by providing them with information and evidence that would implicate Respicio as the mastermind of the "scam."
Velasquez claims that she remitted to Respicio all the money she had charged the applicants and has all the proof to back this up.
Velasquez and Alpha marketing manager Jeffrey Villalon earlier said Respicio had already been tagged in an airline ticket con operation as early as 2017.
According to the whistleblowers, Respicio has been bilking people of their hard-earned money since 2020.
Eddie Dellosa Natnat told DAILY TRIBUNE and Usapang OFW Respicio has been victimizing Filipinos seeking employment in Italy.
Natnat said that he first availed of the services of Respicio in June three years ago, when the Italian government approved Sanatoria 2020, an amnesty program for illegal immigrants in Italy.
Saying that he once worked as a "manny" or male babysitter under Respicio's employ, Natnat recounted first paying her 7,500 euros to process his application for Permesso Di Soggiorno, or a resident permit in Italy.
If "patient zero" refers to the first person documented to have been infected in an outbreak, Natnat posited he may have been Respicio's and Alpha Assistenza's "victim zero" insofar as consular matters were concerned.
