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Facts: Mara Santos operates 'Global Promise Placement' in Iloilo City without a POEA license or authority to conduct overseas recruitment. She posts online ads offering overseas caregiver jobs in the fictitious country of Asteria with a salary of PHP 33,000 per month. She collects processing, medical, and documentary fees from applicants totaling PHP 14,000–26,000 each. She furnishes fake Asteria Domestic Co. job orders and a signed contract that she says will be finalized once the applicant is deployed, and she instructs applicants to keep the arrangement secret from their families and friends. After several victims discover the ruse and file complaints, Santos is charged with illegal recruitment. (a) Identify the governing doctrine and the elements of illegal recruitment that apply to Santos’s acts. (b) Distinguish between direct illegal recruitment and grave illegal recruitment and indicate whether Santos’s scheme fits one of these categories. (c) Apply the facts to determine Santos’s liability under the illegal recruitment statute.