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PEOPLE vs Benzon Ong alias

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. BENZON ONG y SATE alias "BENZ ONG," accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 119594 | 2000-01-18

D E C I S I O N


MENDOZA, J.:

This is an appeal from the decision1 [Per Judge Salvador J. Valdez, Jr., now Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals.] of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 5, Baguio City, finding accused-appellant Benzon Ong y Sate, alias Benz Ong, guilty of (1) illegal recruitment committed in large scale and sentencing him to suffer life imprisonment, pay a fine of P100,000.00, without subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency, and pay the costs; and (2) seven counts of estafa for which he was sentenced to suffer, on each count, an indeterminate prison term ranging from four years and two months of prision correccional,...