Manila, Philippines (AFP) The Philippines will deport 40,000 Chinese workers in a crackdown on unlicensed online gaming businesses, an official said Tuesday, after reports of kidnapping, prostitution and murder in the gambling industry. So-called Philippine offshore gaming operators, or POGOs, have boomed since 2016. But the influx of tens of thousands of Chinese workers in the sector that targets customers in China, where gambling is illegal, has created friction. Many Filipinos complain POGOs have evaded […]
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Pres. Duterte signs law taxing POGOs, majority of targeted revenue to fund health care
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law on Wednesday, Sept 22, an act taxing Philippine Gaming Offshore Operations (POGOs). Malacanang announced this today, Thursday, Sept. 23, saying this was part of the Philippine government’s regulation of all kinds of gambling. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said Republic Act 11590, which taxes POGOs, allocates 60 percent of total revenue collected from gaming tax imposed on offshore gambling to be be allocated for the implementation […]
Pres. Duterte orders DILG, LGUs to identify people who are gambling, drinking: no more aid for them
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte directed the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and local government units to identify and investigate people who have been using their money at this time of crisis to gamble and drink, warning that these citizens would not be given financial aid by the government. Duterte again addressed the nation on Thursday night, April 16, expressing dismay that some Filipinos gambled off and wasted the little money […]
“I hate gambling!” – Duterte says he fired Nayong Pilipino officials for entering into 75-year casino deal
(Eagle News) – “I hate gambling. I will not allow it.” With this announcement, President Rodrigo Duterte revealed on Wednesday, August 8, why he fired all of the board members of the Nayong Pilipino Foundation (NPF) the previous day. The reason was simple, the President said. The NPF board members and management entered into a lease contract that will allow casino gambling for a period of 75 years in a 9.5-hectare property owned by […]
SC imposes P100,000 fine on CA associate justice for gambling
(Eagle News)–A Court of Appeals justice was fined P100,000 for gambling, an act which government officials are banned from doing under the law. The Supreme Court meted out the penalty to Associate Justice Normandie Pizarro, who was seen gambling in a casino in Pampanga in pictures given to the High Court by an anonymous complainant. The complainant also said Pizarro himself admitted to going to a casino in 2009. “Judges should behave at all times so […]
US casino mogul resigns from Republican finance post
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Las Vegas casino billionaire Steve Wynn stepped down Saturday as Republican National Committee finance chairman, following allegations of decades of sexual misconduct. The 76-year-old former business rival turned political ally of President Donald Trump had assumed the RNC position after Trump took office in January 2017. Wynn has denied the allegations, first published in The Wall Street Journal on Friday, and accused his ex-wife Elaine of instigating the accusations as […]
PNP: Gov’t officials and employees caught playing in casinos to be arrested
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Government officials and government employees who will be caught gambling in casinos will be arrested. This is according to Philippine National Police Chief Director-General Ronald Dela Rosa who spoke in a press conference on Wednesday. According to the PNP chief, the new directive was in line with President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement all government employees and officials should be banned from entering casinos and other gambling places. “Hindi naman malala […]
Las Vegas killer was high roller, Valium user: CNN
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Las Vegas mass killer Stephen Paddock was a compulsive player of video poker who took the anxiety drug Valium, CNN reported on Monday. The report gave new details about the background of the 64-year-old who, on October 1, gunned down 58 people and wounded almost 500 for reasons which investigators still have not been able to fathom. Paddock said in a 2013 court deposition that he was “the biggest video poker player in […]
Authorities put big casinos on money-laundering watch
Agence France Presse — Authorities have said they would monitor large transactions at casinos to curb money-laundering, after proceeds from an $81 million theft were funnelled through several gambling establishments last year. President Rodrigo Duterte signed a law this week adding the gaming sector to monitored institutions. Casinos must now report to the central bank’s Anti-Money Laundering Council all transactions exceeding five million pesos (around $99,000). The law authorizes the council to obtain court orders […]
