OK, I'm actually really referring to the popular numbers game called small town lottery (STL), which is essentially jueteng, but given a legal garb in 1987 and placed under the supervision of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) on orders of President Corazon Aquino.
OK, I'm actually really referring to the popular numbers game called small town lottery , which is essentially jueteng, but given a legal garb in 1987 and placed under the supervision of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office on orders of President Corazon Aquino.
The wife of a longtime jueteng operator has even become governor of a province.P4 billionIn a Senate investigation in 2018, then-senator Panfilo 'Ping' Lacson claimed the government was losing at least P4 billion a month, or P48 billion a year, to gambling lords operating STL outlets in Luzon by underreporting their earnings so much so that the PCSO was receiving only P1.7 billion monthly.