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PEOPLE vs Irene Yabut, Fernando Cortez

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. IRENE YABUT @ IRENE CORTEZ @ FLORENCE MADRID1 (At-large), FERNANDO CORTEZ y VEGA, accused-appellant. [The Information and records did not indicate her middle name.]

G.R. Nos. 115719-26 | 1999-10-05

D E C I S I O N


QUISUMBING, J.:

On appeal is the decision dated February 16, 1994 of the Regional Trial Court of Pasig City, Branch 159, convicting appellant Fernando Cortez y Vega of the crime of illegal recruitment in large scale, imposing upon him the penalty of life imprisonment, and ordering him to pay a fine of P100,000.00 and to indemnify private complainants in the following amounts -

"a. Fely M. Casanova in the amount of P151,581.00;
b. Arnel M. Diana in the amount of P50,000.00;
c. Reynaldo P. Claudio in the amount of P58,454.00;
d. German Aquino in the amount of P40,000.00;
e. Manolito Latoja in the amount of P45,000.00;
f....