{"id":8352,"date":"2023-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/en\/asia\/philippine-senator-pushing-to-closing-down-pogos\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T00:00:00","slug":"philippine-senator-pushing-to-closing-down-pogos","status":"publish","type":"asia","link":"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/en\/asia\/philippine-senator-pushing-to-closing-down-pogos\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine Senator, pushing to closing down POGO`s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">A separate probe into kidnappings attributed to POGO activities has also been the focus of Gatchalian&rsquo;s push for closing down POGOs, with the senator claiming that the probe had still found kidnapping related to a PAGCOR-licensed POGO compound as recently as last month.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">Philippine Senator Sherwin Gatchalian is pushing for a total shutdown of Philippine <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/asia\/philippine-will-charge-a-5-extra-to-offshore-gambling-operators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs)<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\"> within three months, submitting a report to the nation&rsquo;s president who he claims will support his recommendations.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/assets\/international\/philippine-senator-pushing-to-closing-down-pogos2.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">Gatchalian told media that POGO operators are <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\"><em>&ldquo;no longer businessmen, they are foreign criminals in our country&rdquo;<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">&#8211; referring to the claims of kidnapping. He also claims that there are incidents involving POGO-linked corruption at the Bureau of Immigration and Bureau of Internal Revenue.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/internationalhttps:\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/asia\/philippine-will-charge-a-5-extra-to-offshore-gambling-operators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&ldquo;<span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\"><em>I personally support the industry, because of the health it is giving to about 25,000 Filipinos at present who are employed in said industry, and also to other businesses that are truly being benefitted,&rdquo;<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\"> the Chairman and CEO of PAGCOR, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\"><strong>Alejandro H. Tengco<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\"> said that the group would halt any unlicensed activity by the overseas operators, but that it continued to support their legal operation; in the other side of the coin <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POGO operators are \u201cno longer businessmen, they are foreign criminals in our country\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5780,"menu_order":276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4238],"class_list":["post-8352","asia","type-asia","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","tag-pogo-philippino-senator-sherwin-gatchalian","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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