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Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGO), renamed Internet Gaming Licensees (IGL) 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.
The POGO sector emerged in the Philippines in 2016 under Marcos’ relatively China-friendly predecessor Rodrigo Duterte, who critics say turned a blind eye to suspected illicit activities as the ...
The POGO hub is situated in the property which is owned by Baofu Land Development, Inc. and is located behind the municipal building in Barangay Anupul, Bamban, [97] was twice raided by the authorities: in February 2023, for alleged involvement in cryptocurrency investment scams; [101] and in March 2024, due to allegations of human trafficking ...
The police raid occurred at a barbed wired blue walled complex of seven buildings linked to Xinchuang Network Technology. The compound situated along Alabang-Zapote Road in Barangay Almanza Uno in Las Piñas, Metro Manila [1] is colloquially known as "Hong Tai".
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.
PAGCOR POGO Hub Covelandia [1] is an online gambling complex hosted in Island Cove and Animal Island in Kawit, Cavite, Philippines. It formerly hosted a resort and leisure park owned by the Remulla political family. It now hosts a hub for Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs).
PAGCOR has stated that there are no Chinese-owned POGOs, and all POGO foreign licensees have Filipino partner firms. [3] While there is no official figure for the number of Chinese gambling workers in the Philippines, it is estimated that around 100,000 to 150,000 Chinese are employed in the Philippines. [4]
[24] [25] Xionwei Technologies came into the news as the company took over the controversial pre-POGO operations of Jack Lam's Jimei International Entertainment which was operating out of Fontana Resort in Clark, Pampanga. Lam fled the Philippines in December 2019, when his company was found out to be employing 1,316 illegal Chinese workers.