Philippine authorities conduct a raid on one of the biggest offshore gaming operations compounds in Bamban, Tarlac on Wednesday, March 13 over alleged human trafficking and serious illegal detention.
Full story: https://www.rappler.com/nation/luzon/raid-pogo-compound-tarlac-march-13-2024/
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00:00 Philippine authorities conduct a raid on one of the biggest offshore gaming operations
00:05 compounds in Bambantarlac on Wednesday, March 13, over alleged human trafficking and serious
00:11 illegal detention.
00:13 More or less 408 people are accounted for.
00:16 All are working inside the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations, or POGO, compound.
00:21 Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission spokesperson Winston Cascio says the warrants
00:27 stemmed from a complaint filed by a Vietnamese who escaped from the POGO compound on February
00:32 28.
00:33 A Malaysian meantime alleged he was being held against his will inside the POGO compound.
00:38 Seventeen of the foreigners who were rounded up were caught in a van during a hot pursuit
00:42 operation along MA Rojas Highway.
00:46 During the search of the POGO premises, authorities found scripts of a love scam modus, as well
00:51 as Android smartphones and iPhones with possible scam transactions.
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