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    This document summarizes a court case, People vs Corpuz, regarding whether the defendant Corpuz knowingly participated in illegal recruitment. The prosecution argued Corpuz received processing fees from victims who were promised jobs in Taiwan but never received contracts. However, the court found the evidence insufficient to prove Corpuz's guilt beyond reasonable doubt. Corpuz received the fees on the orders of the agency president and lacked knowledge the agency's license had been suspended. The court acquitted Corpuz, stating it is better to acquit possibly guilty parties than wrongly convict an innocent person.

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    This document summarizes a court case, People vs Corpuz, regarding whether the defendant Corpuz knowingly participated in illegal recruitment. The prosecution argued Corpuz received processing fees from victims who were promised jobs in Taiwan but never received contracts. However, the court found the evidence insufficient to prove Corpuz's guilt beyond reasonable doubt. Corpuz received the fees on the orders of the agency president and lacked knowledge the agency's license had been suspended. The court acquitted Corpuz, stating it is better to acquit possibly guilty parties than wrongly convict an innocent person.

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    This document summarizes a court case, People vs Corpuz, regarding whether the defendant Corpuz knowingly participated in illegal recruitment. The prosecution argued Corpuz received processing fees from victims who were promised jobs in Taiwan but never received contracts. However, the court found the evidence insufficient to prove Corpuz's guilt beyond reasonable doubt. Corpuz received the fees on the orders of the agency president and lacked knowledge the agency's license had been suspended. The court acquitted Corpuz, stating it is better to acquit possibly guilty parties than wrongly convict an innocent person.

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    This document summarizes a court case, People vs Corpuz, regarding whether the defendant Corpuz knowingly participated in illegal recruitment. The prosecution argued Corpuz received processing fees from victims who were promised jobs in Taiwan but never received contracts. However, the court found the evidence insufficient to prove Corpuz's guilt beyond reasonable doubt. Corpuz received the fees on the orders of the agency president and lacked knowledge the agency's license had been suspended. The court acquitted Corpuz, stating it is better to acquit possibly guilty parties than wrongly convict an innocent person.

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    DIRECT AND CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE

    PEOPLE vs CORPUZ
    G.R. No. 148198
    October 1, 2003

    FACTS:

    1. Private complainants Cabantog, San Diego, Pascual and Surio went to Alga-Mother International Placement Services Corporation at
    Malate, Manila to apply for employment as factory workers in Taiwan. They were accompanied by a certain Aling Josie who introduced
    them to the agency's President and General Manager Reyes. Mrs. Reyes asked them to accomplish the application forms. Thereafter,
    they were told to return to the office with Php 10,000 each as processing fee.
    2. Private complainants returned to the agency to pay the processing fees but Mrs. Reyes was not at the agency at that time, but she called
    Corpuz on the telephone to ask her to receive the processing fees. Thereafter, appellant advised them to wait for the contracts to arrive
    from the Taiwan employers.
    3. Two months later, nothing happened to their applications. Thus, private complainants decided to ask for the refund of their money from
    appellant who told them that the processing fees they had paid were already remitted to Mrs. Reyes. who told them that the processing
    fees they had paid were already remitted to Mrs. Reyes. When they talked to Mrs. Reyes, she told them that the money she received
    from appellant was in payment of the latters debt.
    4. A complaint was filed with the NBI which led to the arrest and detention of Corpuz.
    5. RTC – guilty of illegal recruitment in large scale

    ISSUE: Whether or nor Corpuz knowingly and intentionally participated in the commission of the crime charged

    RULING:

    No. In the case at bar, the prosecution failed to adduce sufficient evidence to prove appellants active participation in the illegal recruitment
    activities of the agency. As already established, appellant received the processing fees of the private complainants for and in behalf of Mrs. Reyes
    who ordered her to receive the same. She neither gave an impression that she had the ability to deploy them abroad nor convinced them to part
    with their money. More importantly, she had no knowledge that the license was suspended the day before she received the money. Their failure to
    depart for Taiwan was due to the suspension of the license, an event which appellant did not have control of. Her failure to refund their money
    immediately upon their demand was because the money had been remitted to Mrs. Reyes on the same day she received it from them.
    While we strongly condemn the pervasive proliferation of illegal job recruiters and syndicates preying on innocent people anxious to obtain
    employment abroad, nevertheless, we find the pieces of evidence insufficient to prove the guilt of appellant beyond reasonable doubt. They do not
    pass the requisite moral certainty, as they admit of the alternative inference that other persons, not necessarily the appellant, may have perpetrated
    the crime. Where the evidence admits of two interpretations, one of which is consistent with guilt, and the other with innocence, the accused must
    be acquitted. Indeed, it would be better to set free ten men who might be probably guilty of the crime charged than to convict one innocent man
    for a crime he did not commit

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