"SMUGGLED PINOYS" A Special Report on Human Trafficking

Episode on September 25, 2010 Saturday after Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho "SMUGGLED PINOYS" IMBESTIGADOR Special Report on Human Trafficking In exchange for a chance at a better life, a considerable number of Filipino workers risk everything, from their safety to their savings, just to secure a decent job abroad. But in some cases, they instead end up surrendering their fate on the hands of unscrupulous human traffickers who are only interested in selling them to the highest bidder. These unknowing victims of modern day slavery end up more miserable than the impoverished lives they left in the Philippines . They are delivered, exported and sold to foreign syndicates in different parts of the world like commodities with a corresponding price tag. They are the Smuggled Pinoys. On its tenth year of providing unique and fearless brand of exposes, hard-hitting investigative reports and compelling cases , Mike Enriquez and his entire IMBESTIGADOR team enter the sinister but organized realm of human trafficking predators and their prey. Through extensive preparation, research and documentation, IMBESTIGADOR will trace the trafficker's trail and expose their illicit methods of recruitment: from convincing the innocent victims in the most impoverished areas in the Philippines , to smuggling them to one of Southeast Asia's primary destination for trafficked persons - Malaysia .