This is not good for the country’s image. The Philippine National Police raided seven buildings in Las Piñas City on Tuesday and rescued 2,714 human trafficking victims. Know more:
This is not good for the country’s image. The Philippine National Police raided seven buildings in Las Piñas City on Tuesday and rescued 2,714 human trafficking victims. Freed from a syndicate were 1,534 Filipinos and 1,190 foreigners from at least 17 countries. The foreign victims include 604 Chinese, 183 Vietnamese, 137 Indonesians, 134 Malaysians and 81 Thais. The others are from Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Taiwan and Yemen.
In a press statement, Senator Win Gatchalian described the latest police raid in a POGO hub in Las Piñas as “another testament that POGOs’ involvement in criminal activities has become rampant, and necessitates their immediate expulsion from the country.” Senate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros exposed in May the sordid details of a huge cyber scam operations unearthed by raiders of a Clark ecozone firm where over 1,000 human-trafficking victims from around Asia were rescued. She called on authorities to check similar nefarious setups of criminals posing as investors in Metro Manila.
“The first concrete step to take is to ban POGOs in the country as they provide a ‘legal cover’ for these hubs, and the operations of these hubs remain beyond regulatory scrutiny. If POGOs are allowed to continue business as usual, the crypto scam and human trafficking operations will also grow at a frightening rate our government will never be able to overtake,” Hontiveros said.
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