WARNING: IN SAUDI ARABIA, BE WARY OF BEING A DEBT GUARANTOR, YOU COULD END UP IN JAIL.
One latest experience of a Filipino overseas worker from Saudi Arabia going to the airport for vacation and was hold at the airport and was not allowed to leave Saudi because she has pending case as a guarantor of a friend who made a quick loan in a lending agency.
In a tragic fate, a Filipina nurse in Riyadh Saudi Arabia is being detained for acting as a guarantor to a fellow Filipina debtor who went home to the Philippines.
A nurse from Panay Island who has been working in Saudi Arabia for 3 years has been detained for a debt of a Filipina friend she helped by acting as a loan guarantor. The 35-year-old Gerlie Rubrico of Batad (photo by Panay News), from the province of Iloilo could face imprisonment of up to two years if, as a loan guarantor, she fails to pay the debt because her friend who borrowed 330,000 Saudi riyals from a Saudi doctor has left the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. At the current exchange rate of P12.5 per Saudi Riyal, that would be a huge P4.1 million pesos.
The OFW has been in detention at the Al–Malaz prison in Riyadh since Dec. 28, 2015 upon the complaint of Dr. Huda Al Abbad, her colleague in one of the hospitals at the King Fahad Medical City – the largest medical facility in Saudi Arabia, according to the news report.
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The OFW has been in detention at the Al–Malaz prison in Riyadh since Dec. 28, 2015 upon the complaint of Dr. Huda Al Abbad, her colleague in one of the hospitals at the King Fahad Medical City – the largest medical facility in Saudi Arabia, according to the news report.
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