No wavering in drive to banish POGOs
LAST week, the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission and the Anti-Cybercrime Group of the Metro Manila police were at odds over a raid on a supposed Philippine offshore gaming operator hub in Manila, which the ACG had carried out.The Paocc said the raid was flawed because all the 85 foreigners who were detained were eventually released without being charged. The ACG explained that it could not hold on to them because it could be charged with arbitrary detention.
Among the sectors that was hit hard was online gaming.POGOs that were projected to generate P32 billion in taxes delivered only about a third of that. The Bureau of Internal Revenue soon came knocking.POGOs were also linked to a wide assortment of criminal activity, from kidnapping and prostitution to money laundering, human trafficking and crypto-scamming.But even more sinister are revelations that gaming operators have infiltrated the political infrastructure of the government.
Wavering In Drive To Banish Pogos
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