MANILA, Philippines — Two Filipino occasion coordinators filed a joint complaint-affidavit earlier than the Division of Justice (DOJ)-Workplace of the Metropolis Prosecutor in Tagaytay Metropolis accusing a number of foreigners, together with a London-based Italian, of unlawful recruitment and estafa.
The grievance, filed by Sheryl Lopez and John Michael Umali, named Italian Adel En Nouri and a number of other others as respondents. It got here simply days after comparable expenses had been leveled towards En Nouri in Batangas, bringing to seven the whole variety of legal complaints lodged towards him.
Of their seven-page affidavit dated Feb. 27, 2026, Lopez and Umali alleged that they had been recruited by respondents with guarantees of high-paying jobs in Singapore, solely to be detained, intimidated, and defrauded of serious quantities of cash.
The complainants stated they first met the native respondents—Clarence Co Quilop, Brian James De Jesus So, Micheangelo Tang Co, Jacqueline Sio, and Krizzria Ann Geronda Loyang—at an occasion at Balay Dako in Tagaytay Metropolis.
The group allegedly represented themselves as personnel of Tamber Worldwide Placement Company and supplied abroad employment.
The complainants acknowledged that on Dec. 1, 2024, and once more on Dec. 7, 2024, the respondents assured them of jobs in Singapore with a month-to-month wage of SGD 2,000.
Throughout a gathering on Dec. 12, the suspects allegedly demanded P100,000 from every complainant as placement charge, which they paid and had been issued acknowledgment receipts.
On Dec. 14, the complainants had been instructed to proceed to a espresso store in Tagaytay and had been instructed to convey private belongings for a five-day orientation. Upon arrival, their cellphones had been confiscated and so they had been allegedly prohibited from leaving the premises.
They had been subjected to an orientation by way of video name by En Nouri and Narwani Ricky Ravin.
The complainants additional claimed that Ravin, appearing underneath En Nouri’s directions, threatened them with doc destruction and blacklisting in the event that they didn’t comply. They had been additionally allegedly pressured by two different foreigners—Prerna Giani and Nisha Deepak Khelmani—to signal clean employment types.
On the morning of Dec. 20, the complainants escaped after they observed the principle door unguarded and instantly sought help from authorities.
Earlier Circumstances Mounting
The grievance towards En Nouri and his alleged cohorts is the newest in a collection of legal instances filed towards the Italian. Final week, two feminine victims from Batangas—Samantha Corpuz and Fatima de Vera—filed a separate grievance earlier than the Workplace of the Metropolis Prosecutor in Santo Tomas Metropolis, accusing En Nouri and 7 others of large-scale unlawful recruitment and estafa over bogus caregiver jobs in Canada and the United Arab Emirates.
In that grievance, Corpuz and de Vera alleged they had been persuaded to pay P120,000 every for supposed quick processing and deployment, solely to find that the respondents weren’t licensed to recruit employees for abroad employment.
The Manila Occasions reported that En Nouri has been the topic of a number of legal complaints for his alleged involvement in fraudulent recruitment schemes.
As of November 2025, he reportedly confronted at the very least 5 legal instances in varied Philippine courts, together with in Bacoor Metropolis and Tanauan Metropolis.
With the addition of the Batangas and Tagaytay complaints, the Italian now faces a complete of seven legal complaints filed by Filipino jobseekers accusing him and his associates of unlawful recruitment, critical unlawful detention, and estafa.
A verification with the Division of Migrant Employees (DMW) hooked up to the Tagaytay grievance confirmed that Tamber Worldwide Placement Company was not licensed or licensed to recruit employees for abroad employment.
The complainants are actually in search of the submitting of legal expenses for Unlawful Recruitment in Massive Scale underneath Sections 5 and 6 of Republic Act 8042 (as amended by RA 10022), and for Estafa underneath Article 315 of the Revised Penal Code.
The case is present process preliminary investigation earlier than the Workplace of the Metropolis Prosecutor in Tagaytay Metropolis.