Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard Chan orders the immediate closure of six business establishments raided for allegedly being part of an illegal Philippine offshore gaming operator hub.
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00:00Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard Chan ordered the immediate closure of six business establishments
00:06raided for allegedly being part of an illegal Philippine offshore gaming operator hub.
00:11This days after authorities rescued 162 foreign nationals from the Tourist Garden Hotel on
00:16Saturday, August 31.
00:18Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission Spokesperson Winston Cacho says initial reports
00:22of the pogo hub stemmed from a request from the Indonesian embassy.
00:26Officials from the National Bureau of Investigation, Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking,
00:31and the Department of Justice worked on the Indonesians' rescue.
00:34We were just here to rescue the Indonesian nationals, so when we arrived here, in flagrantly
00:39delicto, caught in the act, we saw that there were scam farms here.
00:45Paok says there were 162 foreign nationals and five Filipinos found working in three
00:50different scam work areas.
00:51Based on initial interviews, the pogo hub has five administrators that came all the
00:55way from Pampanga after escaping raids conducted there.