A five-year Senate investigation into the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) has concluded that these gambling entities have been exploited for personal gains, leading to various social and economic issues.
The five-year Senate investigation into the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators has disclosed a web of people who used the gambling industry for their own personal gains .Senator Risa Hontiveros said this as she closed the final hearing on the Senate women, children, family relations, and gender equality's investigation on the issues and problems brought about by POGOs.
Hontiveros presented a chart which linked Duterte, his former presidential adviser Michael Yang, personalities implicated in the Pharmally scandal, self-confessed Chinese spy She Zhijiang and his alleged recruiter, dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo and her supposed relatives, Cassie Ong, and former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque all together.
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