(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to look into the possible liabilities of the agency that recruited Overseas Filipino Worker Joanna Demafelis, whose body was found in a freezer in an abandoned apartment in Kuwait.
Aguirre gave the order to probe Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Global E-Human Resources Inc. through Department Order 102 issued on Monday.
“…The (NBI), through Director Dante A. Gierran, is hereby directed and granted authority to conduct (an) investigation and a case build-up…,” the order said.
Aguirre also asked Gierran to submit a report to the Office of the Justice Secretary “on (the) current activities related to the implementation of this order.”
Demafelis’ former employers, a Lebanese and his Syrian wife, have been arrested.
Reports said the couple had left the apartment as early as 2016.
The Department of Labor and Employment has imposed a total ban on the deployment of OFWs to Kuwait following her death and other OFW abuses reported in the Middle Eastern country.
