Three Pinays seek Interpol Red Notice vs foreign trader facing human trafficking in PH
Three human trafficking victims have asked the police’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) to help them in seeking the issuance of Interpol Red Notice against a foreign businessman who is facing criminal charges that also include illegal recruitment before a local court.
In a letter addressed to CIDG director Maj. Gen. Robert Alexander Morico II and dated April 13, the three female complainants are seeking the police’s endorsement of their case to the Office of the Special Envoy on Transnational Crime in order to initiate the processing of the issuance of an Interpol red notice against Adel En Nouri, a businessman reportedly based in London.
An Interpol red notice is a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender, or similar legal action.
Attached in the letter are two copies of separate arrest warrants for a case of trafficking in person and serious illegal detention and illegal recruitment in large scale issued by Branch 119 of the Regional Trial Court in Cavite against Nouri and his four other co-accused.
Both cases are non-bailable offenses.
The complaints said the CIDG endorsement for Interpol Red Notice is important in locating Nouri and bring him to the Philippines to face the criminal charges.
“Such action is essential in locating, apprehending, and facilitating the extradition of the accused back to the Philippines so that he may face the charges against him and be held accountable under the law,” the letter-request read.
“We humbly appeal to your sense of justice and compassion. As victims, we seek not only accountability but also closure and protection,” it added.
In the same letter, the complainants said they came to know Nouri last year through his employees in the Philippines engaged in recruitment of overseas workers, the Nouri International Placement Agency (NIPA) based in Cavite.
They said they were offered a domestic helper job with a monthly salary equivalent to P80,000.
“Under the guise of getting an ‘experience’ to work as domestic helpers/workers abroad, we were forced to work as maids for NIPA and were prevented from leaving NIPA's office,” the letter read.
The worst part, they said, was that they were forced to perform sexual acts.
The victims later escaped and filed charges against Nouri.
They said an Interpol Red Notice with the help of the CIDG is part of their effort to seek justice.
“We humbly appeal to your sense of justice and compassion. As victims, we seek not only accountability but also closure and protection. We trust in your office's dedication to upholding the law and combating transnational crimes, particularly those involving human trafficking,” the letter read.