Siyam na buwan matapos salakayin, mistulang ghost town ang POGO hub sa Bamban, Tarlac nang ekslusibong ipinasilip sa GMA Integrated News. Habang ang POGO sa Porac, Pampanga, tila pastulan ng kambing at namamaho na
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00:00A month has passed since the Pogo Hub in Bamban, Tarlac, was discovered by the GMA Integrated News.
00:13While the Pogo in Porac, Pampanga seems like a goat pasture and it's getting wet.
00:18The government plans to build abandoned facilities so that it won't be wasted, according to the special report of Salima Refran.
00:25Next operations.
00:31If you're not the one who lied.
00:35And on the left and right, investigation.
00:37Did you go to the park?
00:39The Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators or POGOs are disappearing.
00:44We need to stop this chaos in our society and strengthen our country.
00:51Effective today, all POGOs are banned.
00:58A few months after the discovery, this is what the Pogo Hub in Bamban, Tarlac, looks like.
01:03The town of the former mayor, Alice Gu, who was involved in the Pogo operations in the country.
01:09The compound is as wide as a ghost town.
01:12The former lively place is now full of grass.
01:17It's also full of luxury cars.
01:21Some of them are already flat.
01:24One of the most famous parts of this Baufu compound is their Olympic-sized swimming pool.
01:30For now, it has no water and it's dirty because it's not maintained anymore.
01:35There's no supply of water and electricity here in the area.
01:40Inside the villas, plants are dying.
01:44And underneath, there's a secret tunnel.
01:48One of the common things discovered in illegal POGOs,
01:52like these secret rooms, secret pools,
01:56here in Baufu, they have a network of tunnels
02:00that can enter from the wine cellar of one of the villas through a secret door.
02:04When you enter, here it is.
02:08It's a steel door.
02:10When you enter the pool, it leads to the other villas.
02:15The offices themselves are abandoned.
02:18Some of these partitions were also destroyed.
02:21The items, including food and garbage, were scattered by POGO workers.
02:29The POGO hub in Borac, Pampanga, is also silent.
02:32A few hours before the lock-in of this Lucky South 99,
02:35this road is almost full of POGO workers who are moving around.
02:41For now, there are almost no people.
02:44Only a few police officers are guarding this place.
02:50POGO workers are not the only ones who can be seen here.
02:52It's also the goats that are being fed by the high grass.
02:57The work areas and the villas of the bosses are well guarded.
03:02But we were allowed to enter one of the dormitories.
03:06Since the raid, this place has not been seen by the public.
03:09In fact, this area is already full of goats.
03:13And if you look at the rooms,
03:16they are scattered and messy
03:19because this is how the POGO workers left their dormitories.
03:24Here on this side, the smell is a bit different.
03:28That's because there are also left-over food that is rotting at this time.
03:36According to the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission of Paok,
03:398 large POGO hubs were raided since 2022.
03:43All of these are now empty.
03:46Under the preservation order,
03:48the properties of the POGO that were raided,
03:50like this BAUFU compound,
03:52means that it is under the care of the government
03:56while they are hearing the forfeiture case for these.
04:00Because in our Human Trafficking Law,
04:02there is a provision that the instruments and proceeds of the crime,
04:06so the equipment and earnings from the crimes of human trafficking,
04:10can be forfeited to the state
04:14so that the victims of human trafficking can benefit.
04:21What we are thinking here is for the government to benefit.
04:25Like those large POGO hubs,
04:29they can be used as schools,
04:31they can be used as camps or training centers.
04:36For example, if our case wins
04:40and it becomes a property of the government,
04:42it can be sold.
04:44Because the victims of human trafficking can benefit from this.
04:53One POGO hub in Pasay,
04:56Paok's Detention Facility,
04:58and the Department of Social Welfare and Development, or DSWD,
05:02as a processing center for those who are being raided.
05:06Under the supervision of the real estate consultancy firm,
05:09Lechu Property Consultants,
05:11more than 1 million square meters of office space
05:14will be allocated for the leasing of POGOs.
05:17This does not include the many landlords
05:20who sold their condo units or residential properties
05:24to foreign POGO workers.
05:26It will take 3 to 5 years
05:29for the market to stabilize again.
05:31The biggest impact of this is the sentiment of the investor.
05:37According to the Department of Finance,
05:39POGO's impact on the economy is around P99.25 billion per year.
05:45But NEDA itself said
05:48that it cannot measure the negative effect of POGO on society.
05:53At the end of the year,
05:55the Philippines will continue to close its doors to POGOs.
05:59To the left and right of the criminals,
06:01to the controversies,
06:02and to the many victims,
06:04I hope that the country has learned
06:06not to let this kind of dark industry flourish again.
06:11From Porac, Pampanga,
06:13for GMA Integrated News,
06:15I'm Nima Refrang.
06:16Stay tuned for 24 Hours.