BREAKING: President Rodrigo Duterte orders the military and the police to stop all the PCSO-licensed games, through a video posted late Friday night.
President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the immediate halt to all gaming operations, licenses and franchises of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office .
Duterte announced this through a video on the Presidential Communications Operations Office Facebook page late Friday night. "I have today ordered the closure the stoppage of all gaming schemes of whatever nature, however done that got their franchises to do so from the PCSO. The ground is massive corruption involving all," Duterte said."It becomes illegal because as of today all of those permits and concessions or whatever are terminated," Duterte said.Duterte said he will not honor any court order that would prevent him from closing down the operations of these games.
"As of today I will not honor any any order from any court stopping us or enjoining us to stop our desire to go into a massive investigation for the massive corruption that is existing in the PCSO," the President said.
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