An inter-agency task force will be formed by the Department of Justice to go after the perpetrators of human trafficking of Filipina workers in Kuwait, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said Wednesday.

De Lima made the disclosure when she attended the House Committee on Overseas Workers Affairs probe on the diplomats and labor officials who allegedly committed sexual abuses against distressed Overseas Filipino Workers in the Middle East.

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