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On June 27, 2023, the Philippine National Police conducted a raid on a gambling complex in Las Piñas, Metro Manila, Philippines to serve warrants related to anti-human trafficking laws. The Department of Justice has alleged that the police had not coordinated with it prior to the raid.
Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs), renamed Internet gaming licensees (IGLs) in October 2023, [1] are firms operating in the Philippines that offer online gambling services to markets outside the country, with a significant portion catering to the Chinese market. POGOs began operating in the Philippines in 2003.
Katherine Cassandra Li Ong (born May 23, 2000), also nicknamed Cassy Li, [2] is a Filipino [3] businesswoman who was an associate of Lucky South 99 Outsourcing, Inc., a defunct Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) in Porac, Pampanga, that has been investigated by authorities for criminal activities committed within its compound.
His company operates Philippine Veterans Investment Development Corporation's (Phividec) steel mill in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Yang was also linked to a former Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) hub at the Alwana Business Park as the alleged owner of Oroone Inc. a registered service provider for POGOs.
Island Cove was an online gambling complex primarily owned and controlled by Chinese nationals in Island Cove and Animal Island in Kawit, Cavite, Philippines.. It was originally a resort and leisure park called "Covelandia Island Resort", which then closed in 2018, then reopened under the name "Island Cove Resort and Leisure Park" or simply as "Island Cove" in 2021.
The president of the Philippine Association for Chinese Studies acknowledged the proliferation of Chinese-affiliated POGOs to have generated jobs and revenue for the Philippine economy but also fostered tensions between Filipinos and the Chinese, worsened proliferation of prostitution and law enforcement issues. [1]
August 13 – The Ombudsman orders the dismissal of Alice Guo as mayor of Bamban, Tarlac for grave misconduct over her involvement in the operations of an illegal POGO hub in the municipality. [213] It also orders the suspension of vice-mayor Leonardo Anunciacion and seven of eight members of the Sangguniang Bayan of Bamban for three months on ...
Recently, because President Rodrigo Duterte has initiated to mend the relations between the Philippines and China, Chinese visitors in the country are expected to increase, and this possibly attracts more investments. This puts the Philippines in competition with Macau and Singapore to become a gambling hub that targets Asia's rising middle class.